Pani Stefa and the Orphans: Out of the Shadow of Korczak

by Magdalena Kiciska

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912676788
• ISBN13: 9781912676781
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"