Pani Stefa and the Orphans: Out of the Shadow of Korczak - Couverture souple

Kicińska, Magdalena

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1912676788 ISBN 13 : 9781912676781

Editeur : Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

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 Tuszynska – 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, Kicińska shows us how it is sometimes the drama of history’s minor characters, which can cast the most penetrating light on their world.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912676788
• ISBN 13: 9781912676781
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible