{"product_id":"pani-stefa-and-the-orphans-magdalena-kicinska-9781912676781","title":"Pani Stefa and the Orphans: Out of the Shadow of Korczak","description":"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, Kicinska shows us how it is sometimes the drama of history's minor characters, which can cast the most penetrating light on their world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Magdalena Kicinska\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1912676788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781912676781\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vallentine Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Magdalena Kicinska","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088949653759,"sku":"9781912676781","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e7066238-bc90-4e58-8ee9-9884b1bc3189.jpg?v=1769107453","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pani-stefa-and-the-orphans-magdalena-kicinska-9781912676781","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}