Pani Stefa and the Orphans
Out of the Shadow of Korczak
Seiten
2021
Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-912676-78-1 (ISBN)
Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-912676-78-1 (ISBN)
Kicińska shifts the gaze from the legendary Dr. Korczak to the inscrutable Pani Stefa. She tells a story of a life: a Polish Jewess who spoke French not Yiddish; a pedagogue as demanding as she was self-sacrificing; a lonely woman who rarely had privacy. Kicińska shows us how history’s minor characters can sometimes cast the most penetrating light.
Emmanuel Ringelblum (one of the orphans) wrote: 'They cooperated all their lives. Even death did not separate them. They went to death together. Everything related to the person of Korczak – boarding school, promoting love for children – everything was the joint achievement of both of them.'
At a moment when communists were engineering a New Man, and Zionists a New Jew, a doctor and a teacher devoted themselves to a social experiment: raising a new child.
Their orphanage is set amidst the desperate poverty of Jewish Warsaw; often the children are not orphans, but rather children of mothers unable to care for them, making their way out of rat-infested rooms with dirt floors or frozen cellars. In this polyphonic work of literary non-fiction, Magdalena Kicinska shifts the gaze from the legendary Dr. Korczak to the inscrutable Pani Stefa.
Artfully – in a style reminiscent of Hanna Krall and Agata Tuszy?ska – the author pieces together a story of a life: a Polish Jewess who spoke French but not Yiddish; a pedagogue who was as demanding as she was self-sacrificing; a lonely woman who rarely in her life had a moment of privacy. In doing so, Kici?ska shows us how it is sometimes the drama of history's minor characters, which can cast the most penetrating light on their world.
Emmanuel Ringelblum (one of the orphans) wrote: 'They cooperated all their lives. Even death did not separate them. They went to death together. Everything related to the person of Korczak – boarding school, promoting love for children – everything was the joint achievement of both of them.'
At a moment when communists were engineering a New Man, and Zionists a New Jew, a doctor and a teacher devoted themselves to a social experiment: raising a new child.
Their orphanage is set amidst the desperate poverty of Jewish Warsaw; often the children are not orphans, but rather children of mothers unable to care for them, making their way out of rat-infested rooms with dirt floors or frozen cellars. In this polyphonic work of literary non-fiction, Magdalena Kicinska shifts the gaze from the legendary Dr. Korczak to the inscrutable Pani Stefa.
Artfully – in a style reminiscent of Hanna Krall and Agata Tuszy?ska – the author pieces together a story of a life: a Polish Jewess who spoke French but not Yiddish; a pedagogue who was as demanding as she was self-sacrificing; a lonely woman who rarely in her life had a moment of privacy. In doing so, Kici?ska shows us how it is sometimes the drama of history's minor characters, which can cast the most penetrating light on their world.
Magdalena Kicinska is a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science at the University of Warsaw. She is the author of Stefania Wilczynska's biography, Pani Stefa. Since January 2019 she has been working as the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Pismo. In February 2019, her first poetry collection Means of Transport was released. She lives in Warsaw.
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.06.2021 |
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Übersetzer | Sean Gasper Bye |
Verlagsort | Ilford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 1-912676-78-8 / 1912676788 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-912676-78-1 / 9781912676781 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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