OCTOBER 7, 1926 in Warsaw To my future readers! Our newspaper will be located in a great corner house. Beside II. When I didn’t do well in school, they said I was lazy. I don’t know. it is a garden, on the right a huge sports field, on the left a pond In the Our Review newsroom, I was told, “We want to make a Supposedly if you don’t have money, you’re a dope. If so, then I’m and a boat: a skating rink in the winter. Of course, bikes, cars, supplement for kids. It can come out once a week. We’ll give you a dope. And I really am wicked. If something doesn’t go well for and airplanes for the use of contributors and correspondents. two pages a week. We don’t want to bother you. Write what you me, I get really angry. If this supplement for kids doesn’t do well, An antenna on the roof, to make it easier to collect news from want. You’ve written a few books for kids, it’ll be easy for you.” it would be really bad. And I can be lazy, too, when I don’t like the whole country and the whole world. Wherever there is I said, “All right.” doing something. something important and interesting, our reporter and our photo But then I started to worry. There’s a difference between books I never liked memorizing poems or playing the piano. And I had camera will be there. and papers. I write a book when I want to, but I’ll have to write the a lot of problems because of it. That will be the newspaper for children and school youth. paper like homework. A book is about one thing, but in a paper, you And then I became a doctor. For seven years, I liked in a hospital, There will be twelve telephones, so that everyone, at any have to write about everything. In a book, I can make things up, treating sick children. It was at the hospital that I noticed that time, can call us and talk, ask a question, pass on a message, but in a paper, you have to write the truth, or people get upset that children are smart and good. I remember Perla and Srulek — I’ll or file a complaint. you’re lying. A book has to be interesting, but not for everyone. tell you about them sometime — I remember Chaimek and Władek, There will be two movie theaters (on the ground floor). In one, If someone doesn’t like it, they don’t have to read it. But a paper who were brought in by the Ambulance. adventure and funny movies, in the other — moving and educational. has to have something for everyone — one person reads about The Ambulance brought many children to our hospital because Everything will be interesting. accidents, another reads the announcements, and another still there are many unlucky accidents. In the papers for grown-ups, they The paper will be printed on a rotary machine. I’m not exactly the sports section. And I have to pretend that I know everything write very briefly about these accidents. They’ll write that so and sure what a rotary machine is, but all big papers are printed on about everything. so was run over by a tram, or that he burned himself — and that’s machines like that. Besides, it’s got a nice name, very official: I write books like a letter to a friend, but the paper is written it. We never know what happened with him. If the editor lets us, “ROTARY MACHINE” for strangers. we’ll write more about them in our supplement. Because accidents The newsroom will be located on the first floor. There will be When I was little, I was told to write a letter to my aunt. She are interesting. Fires are interesting, too, and the adventures of a waiting room, or maybe two — one for the grown-ups, one for lived far away, and supposedly I’d seen her sometime, but I couldn’t various people, too. Just like a scary fairytale. the kids. Because grown-ups will come to our newsroom with remember. There are also funny adventures. When the children come home various matters, too. The paper will consider all of the matters “Here’s paper, pen, and ink. Write.” from school, they often tell us about what they saw on the street. concerning students and schools. And it will be edited in such “But I don’t know her.” Sometimes, it’s a funeral with a band, or a policeman walking with a way that it will defend children. “It doesn’t matter.” a thief, or a drunk man arguing, or a man chasing a hat that was The paper will make sure that everything happens So here’s what I wrote: blown away by the wind. FAIRLY. “Dear Auntie! We kindly request that our Readers send us descriptions There will be three editors. One old (bald, wearing glasses), I am well and I wish you the same, dear Auntie. Auntie, I don’t of adventures and accidents. to make sure everything stays in order. A young editor for the know what you look like. Please write me if you’re fat or thin. And When I stopped treating children, I didn’t know what to do, so I boys, and a girl — an editor for the girls. So that nobody’s write me what kind of hair you have. And write me what your nose started writing books. But a book takes a long time to write, and I ashamed and everyone speaks honestly and clearly what they is like. And write me what your ears are like. And write me what don’t have the patience, and it uses up a lot of paper, and my hand need, what’s hurting them, what are their worries and cares. your teeth are like. And write me if you like chocolates, Auntie, hurts. So maybe it’s better to write a paper because the readers Whoever wants to can say whatever they want to, they can because I do. And write me if you collect stamps, because I do, can help with that. come in and write it down, right there in the newsroom. and I have an album for stamps. And write me what your tongue I can’t do it alone. Permanent correspondents will have their own desks or drawers. is like. Auntie, please tell me if boys ride bicycles where you are, So it’ll be like this: If someone is embarrassed that they write messily or make because I really want to, but I don’t have a bicycle. I don’t remember Everyone who writes to us more often, will receive the title of mistakes, the editor will tell them: you, Auntie, do you remember me? And have you grown, Auntie, CORRESPONDENT. “Don’t worry. We’ll fix it in editing.” because I have. Please give my regards to your family Auntie. And And if their news is interesting, after six months or a year, Or if they don’t want to write at all, the editor will call the please write back to me.” they’ll be a stenographer and tell them, “Go on.” They told me that what I wrote was silly, and I’m worried that CONTRIBUTOR. They’ll go into a separate room and dictate. they’ll tell me again that my writing isn’t worth anything. After that, they can become a People will be able to pass on news themselves, by phone, So I want to get to know my Readers, so I can write to send by mail, dictate or write. them as friends. PERMANENT CONTRIBUTOR. Just so that everyone’s comfortable, so they’re not embar- I want to know what is interesting to a Reader, what they enjoy, All letters will be graded. If someone wants to get an A, they rassed that someone will laugh at them. what they like to do, how they spend their time, what their favorite have to write an interesting letter, without any errors, and write There are many grown-ups who write only because they’re games are. it cleanly and legibly. Letters should be written in ink so that the not embarrassed. There are many children who have so many I want to know what worries them, are they calm or do people editors don’t ruin their eyes. To become a correspondent, you’ll good ideas, observations, and comments, but they don’t write, call them trouble, are they good students, or do they say they’re need 10 or 20 fives, I haven’t decided yet. I don’t actually know because they don’t have the courage or because they don’t want to. lazy, what schools they go to, what class they’re in, what bench how any of it will work yet. I’m still putting it together in my head Our paper will encourage young people to write. they sit on, and who sits beside them. I want to know if their to make it the best possible. If I was writing for grown-ups, I would It will encourage and embolden them. teachers are nice and if their parents yell at them often and why. I have to pretend that I know. And I don’t like to pretend, so I don’t Because it’s not hard. It’s harder to sell papers than to write want to know if they have older brothers and sisters, and if their want to write for grown-ups. them, but boys, even young ones, manage that very well. If older siblings are very bossy, or if they have younger brothers and I’ve also said I can be wicked. If I see that something isn’t going someone writes something awkward or silly, nothing bad will sisters and if the kids bother them a lot. well, that everyone just wants to read and nobody wants to write, happen to them. But if a newspaper boy takes a wrong turn, he Because I live in a house where there are a hundred boys and I’ll get impatient and stop writing. If you don’t want to help, fine. can get run over by a car or a tram. girls altogether. And I often visit a house where there are fifty boys How can one person know what’s happening in every city, on In the building of our paper, there will be a meeting room. We’ll and girls. In the summer, I spent time in a village, where there every street, in every backyard, in all schools, and what everyone meet there together and talk about what improvements to make. were two hundred of us. There are sometimes five or ten fights a wants to know? We’ll have reporters from various departments. week in our house. How many arguments, I can’t tell you because To start, I’m opening a permanent section called: Specialists: we don’t count them. It’s easy to count the fights, but it’s hard to football, count the arguments, because you often don’t know if it was a fight, cinema, or just a talk, or if someone got mad. — Girls get mad more often “I WANT TO KNOW” trips, than boys. — Once, Aron fought the most, and Lejzor argued the You can write in to the section using postcards. The address is: jokes and pranks, most. But Aron moved out, and Lejzor argues less these days. The Little Review Newsroom charades and riddles. We have more nice friends than not nice. We really like Szymonek Warsaw On the second floor, there will be a hallway with doors on the because he jumps 135 centimeters high, and Sala because she’s Nowolipki 7 left and right, labeled soccer, sport, sightseeing, school (every good. Of the younger ones, we like Chaskielek because he’s part department and every class will have their own reporter). of the “Płomień” sports club and doesn’t need to be coddled. In the All right. Meanwhile, it’s the end. And then there will be a The paper will be published twice a day. In the morning for forest in the village, we played matches. Hiluś is a good goalkeeper. beginning. The beginning is always the most difficult. Please don’t the youngest children — they have time to read in the morning. There was a cricket match. There was a volleyball match that boys get mad if at the beginning our supplement is a little messy. Even In the morning edition, there will be a lot played with girls. The girls put on a show: there was singing, dancing, when you’re in school, at the beginning of the year, when not of pictures. a funny sketch and little Sabina recited very nicely. In Pruszków, everyone has books and notebooks, when they change seats and As free extras, they’ll get chocolates, gingerbread, and toys. the boys put on a circus. There were magic tricks, jokes, trained schedules, there has to be a bit of a mess. I still don’t have all the The evening edition will be serious, and the prizes will be tigers — Heniek was the wild animal trainer. It was a lot of fun. books and papers I need, either. On my editorial desk, there are different: books, pencil cases, watches, pocket knives, free tickets In the summer, we had a reading race: who read the fastest. only five issues of a paper called the Student’s Voice. to theater plays. There were separate races for those who read more slowly and In many schools, students put out papers; I have no doubt they’ll There will be a library in the building, because if you want those who read quickly and fluently. There was a multiplication send them to us. to write, you have to read books sometimes. There will be a table race: in the girls’ group, Dorcia won and received a pencil Our organization will be apolitical and non-partisan. large, well-lit drawing room. case. If Dorcia wasn’t a slob, everything would be fine; but she’s I don’t really know what that means, but papers usually say that Everyone will be able to comfortably read, write and draw. trying more these days. in prospectuses. So why should we be any worse than they are? When and where the house will be built, we don’t know yet. I would write more about what’s happening with us, but this is Sincerely, We don’t know what the paper will be called. This is only a only the first letter, so I can’t put everything in it. project, a plan, an outline. It has to be filled in, altered, and fully Now I’ll tell you about myself. worked out. We’ll be grateful if our readers help us. When I was little, they said I was a crybaby and a wicked boy. Janusz Korczak

Free weekly supplement to Our Review No. 277 (1348) OCTOBER 9, 1926 in Warsaw. Year 1, Nº 1 (ISSN 2544-0187)

Paper for children and youth EDITED BY Janusz Korczak Published every Friday morning

Correspondence and materials should be sent to the Little Review NEWSROOM Warsaw, No. 7 Nowolipki Street Scarlet fever FROM THE PARLIAMENT Scarlet fever is a sickness that grown- the garden and to not put anything ups catch very rarely, and children unnecessary in your mouth. very often. The sickness can be mild, But scientists have proven that a There is a lot in papers about the way they’ll understand. After all, a If you don’t respect someone a lot, heavy, or fatal. In Warsaw hospitals, hungry person will get infected more Parliament: “It was said in the little knowledge won’t hurt. you just say his name without adding there are nearly 1000 children sick easily and be sicker. There are many Parliament.” “An MP said in the And so, recently the government, the “mister.” That’s how the teacher with scarlet fever, and there are also hungry children in schools, but no- Parliament.” “There was a vote.” “A that is, all the ministers, got upset usually lists names in school. But probably a lot of them in private homes. body’s writing that the hungry children minister spoke in the Parliament.” with the Parliament. The government also, if you respect someone a lot, Scarlet fever is an infectious disease, in schools should be fed. These articles are long and boring. said that the Parliament was advising you also don’t say “mister.” Because and if a lot of people get this kind of Scientists have also proven that What’s worse, they’re full of incompre- them badly, and the Parliament said no one says Mister Kościuszko, Mister disease at the same time, then they people need fresh air, and meanwhile, hensible words. Although the smartest that the ministers were governing Mickiewicz, or Mister Bartel. And if call it an epidemic. many schools are very crowded, there people in every newsroom always write badly. The Parliament is most upset you want to insult someone, say that We have a scarlet fever epidemic are few windows, and there’s nowhere about the Parliament, it would be better with two ministers and told them that they’re not really a great figure, you now, and the papers are writing what to play even during breaks. And even if to replace these articles with news they should leave. The others could write about him as “mister”. This is people should do to not get sick or the day is nice, you don’t see children about various events and interesting stay, but those two had to leave. all very strange, but it can’t be helped. infected anymore. on field trips or walks. Nobody’s writing things happening in the world. And the government said, that the This is how it is: We don’t want to argue with the that they should organize more walks I would also like to start with Parliament should get stuffed and paint The Parliament holds a vote that grown-ups starting in the first issues, and give less homework, while the something else, but there is no way itself green. they don’t trust the ministers. Then so we’ll only have a few remarks about epidemic lasts. around it — until we come up with And the two ministers stayed. the ministers write a letter saying that what they’re writing. A happy and satisfied person is more our own paper, we have to imitate the So the Parliament got even more they don’t want to govern anymore. Yes, vaccines are very important, as resistant to plague, and as soon as grown-ups. In all papers, there are upset, and wouldn’t let the government And the President picks another class well as having clean hands, washing you get bored or scared, you can get introductory articles and so we also spend as much money as they needed monitor, another minister to be the hands as soon as you come back from sicker more quickly. So there should be have to have an introductory article. for all the expenses. “The government most important one, to choose whoever school, or even from walking on the more fun, too. Children should always And later we’ll see what we’ll do. has fallen. The cabinet has fallen.” he wants. street. It’s also important to rinse be happy, especially while there is an The Parliament is located somewhere When a student doesn’t pass a grade, President Mościcki has picked your mouth and brush your teeth, epidemic. That’s what the papers for in the district of Mokotów, and I live or fails an exam, they say he fell short, Piłsudski. as well as carefully wipe your nose. grown-ups have forgotten to write in Wola, so I don’t really know what as if he tried to jump somewhere and There are many people in Poland It’s important not to pick anything about, so it’s our duty to remind them. goes on there. But maybe I can manage missed, even though grades are writ- who like Piłsudski a lot and they write up off the ground on the street or in somehow. And if it turns out that there ten in pen. And when we talk about that things will be better how. And have to be introductory articles about ministers, we say they fell. As if they those who don’t like him, write that the Parliament in the Little Review, too, were walking, walking, and someone “Mister” Piłsudski has been picked, then maybe we’ll do it that way. tripped them and they fell. and they’re mad. Proper working tools Members of Parliament have “The fall of Bartel’s government.” And what happens next, nobody children. Let the dad write for the Bartel was like a class monitor. He knows. Parents and teachers demand that fault or a friend’s. grown-ups, and the MP’s son will was responsible for the work of his k. students should have their books The paper of school notebooks leave write for us. Or perhaps the editor ministers. and notebooks in order and that their a lot to be desired. We understand that can read the grown-up papers, and We just say Bartel, without the handwriting be neat and careful. This everyone wants to pay less, but should then write it again for children, in a “mister.” And that’s very strange. is a reasonable demand — we want factories keep making notebooks that the same. However, there are many everyone knows are good for noth- obstacles. One of the most important ing? You can’t even erase something is the low quality of our working tools. without putting a hole in the paper. A FLASH IN A PAN The working tools of a student — pen, But little hairs get stuck in even the pencil, paper, blotting paper, compass, best nibs, and then you have a few crayons, paints, etc. And everything smudged letters that nothing can be We call it “a flash in a pan” if someone Those who do not hurry and get to do everything at once. We’ll have to that’s for the grown-ups, for offices and done about. You wipe a nib like that on starts to work on something enthusiasti- work carefully, they will surely win. wait for some things. We might get institutions, it’s made different, more your hair, trying to get the little hair cally and then gets bored very quickly Even if they do not really want to, one thing right away, and another in expensive and better, and everything out, and get ink all over your fingers. and stops. It’s like a fire in a frying pan they’ll write. And it’s important that a month, or even a year. for schools is low quality. And that gets you angry and makes it — starts easily and burns out quickly. we have news from all schools from Illustrated articles — that’s a good Who hasn’t had a nib fall off just hard to think. Then people ask why And that sort of thing is a hindrance different cities — from Łódź, from idea, but Our Review already has il- when we’re in a hurry and have to you have ink stains on your school when you’re starting on something. Vilnius, from Krakow, from Lublin, lustrated supplements, and drawings be careful to make it on time and not apron or in your hair. Why? Because Everyone rushes forward, calling from Płock, from Kalisz, from Lviv, cost a lot. make a mistake? Or one that’s stuck of flimsy paper that frays, drags, and out, “Me!” “And me!” “And me!” from Sosnowiec, and even from really We often say, “when I have money, so deep that the only way to get it smudges the writing. There’s noise, there’s a crowd, and small towns and villages. I’ll do it, I’ll buy it, I’ll go there.” out is with your teeth? Of course, it’s Sometimes a student manages then someone grows impatient, another One of our careful readers writes Fairytales, poems and dreams are bad for your teeth, but what are we to get to the end successfully. They one gets tired quickly, yet another gets to us: important, but we don’t want to start supposed to do if there’s no other way? look over their work with satisfac- mad, and then there aren’t enough Dear Editors, with them; there are plenty of fairytales You can count yourself lucky when tion, breathe a sigh of relief and ap- people left. Before I start writing for your paper, and poems in books and various papers you get a nib that doesn’t scratch, ply blotting paper. Except instead of It’s going to be the same with the I would like to know some things: for children, so it’s better to start by doesn’t write too thick. Sometimes, blotting paper, they were given just Little Review. There will be those 1. Can we criticize if we don’t like writing about things that aren’t there you break it on purpose, to get rid of plain thin paper. Careful application who’ll say, “Ooh, we’ll write for sure, something? yet. a bad nib, and other times, you can won’t help, all the effort will be wasted. every week, for every issue, we’ll 2. Can we write fairytales, poems, How articles are signed is also write for a month or longer, take care They’ll have a smudged, dirty, awful write a lot!” and dreams? important — whether it’s a first of it and enjoy it, and regret when it page. What are they supposed to do? And there will be a lot of letters, 3. Can we submit illustrated articles? name, or a full name, or not at all. breaks from overuse or through your continued on p. 2 and then fewer and fewer. The first 4. Can we write several articles There are people who like to see their letter will be carefully written, the at once? name in print because they think that others, not so much. 5. Can we write under a pen name? they’re famous. It’s not like that at A flash in a pan — here today, gone Sincerely, all. If someone has a lot written about HACEFIRA tomorrow. P. T. them, it gets boring. But there will be those who’ll last, One boy told me once: The oldest Hebrew paper, Hacefira, is people. For a long time, Hacefira those who have a strong will. They Allow us to answer: “I really don’t like Magister Klawe.” being published again since September published a supplement “for the kids.” won’t hurry — instead, they’ll read You can do everything you want. “Why?” I asked him. 29. This is the sixty-fifth year of its Reports from the Hacefira newsroom a few issues, they’ll think about it, What is most important for the paper “Because everyone keeps writing publication. say the supplement for young people make a plan, write a rough draft, read are new ideas. What someone writes about his Hemogen and they think it Hebrew papers have almost always will soon be published again. it through and correct it, and only then may be not very good, but the idea sounds funny.” remembered children and young put the letter in an envelope. behind it can be very good. You can’t continued on p. 2 4 The little REVIEW FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1926 in Warsaw. Year 1, Nº 1

The first An orphan’s diary mail delivery

This is a diary, not a novel. A diary bedroom. Across from me was a bed, on to Warsaw, one sister to Lublin and the for me with an angry face. She shouted I have received 47 letters – 31 from contains the adventures and events which father lay. I only remember his other to Minsk. I remember that my at me, asking where I was, but I didn’t boys and 16 from girls. There were 40 from a person’s life. They describe it black beard and uncovered chest that was brother gave me candy when we said pay attention to her anger and started letters from Warsaw and 7 from other all themselves, not someone else. A smeared with something. When I told goodbye. telling her about my adventure. Auntie cities. In addition to the full names, diary is the truth. We are happy to print my brother about this a few years later, I slept in one bed with my aunt’s didn’t want to hear anything about it, addresses were also provided in 32 this diary, which was given to us with he told me that that was indeed what my servant, who was very dirty. I was she was furious and threatened to throw letters. It’s better to give an address the title “the short history of my life.” father looked like. And I think that was homesick and cried that I wanted to me out if I went back there. From then because names can be the same. the first and last time I ever saw him. go home. I remember when auntie had on, I had to sneak out. Thanks to the addresses I know that * * * What I did later, whether I went back another baby, and how, when I was five I remember that my aunt promised Adam and Helena M. live together, Finally, at the age of 14, I have decided to bed, I don’t remember. or six years old, I found out from the me a roll with butter if I didn’t go to that Leon N., evidently impatient, first to describe my life’s experiences. I often think back on that memory. children in the yard that school was free school. She went to town and I couldn’t wrote a letter together with his brother, I was an orphan at a very early age. It is nice to see myself in a nightgown, and I could learn. I immediately ran to wait for her to come back, so I left the and then a second one by himself. Four I didn’t know my father. To this day, I standing at the door and probably rub- the school with one of the girls. The baby alone and the door unlocked, and letters were signed only with a first don’t know whether what I saw was bing my sleepy eyes. teacher was a very nice boy, probably ran to school. name without a last name, and one real or a dream. When father died, I I know from stories that father died from the fourth grade. He accepted me Auntie, seeing that I was of no use letter with a pen name. I received was two years old and I don’t know of pneumonia, and mother from grief and told me to come back tomorrow. I to her, decided to send me to live with 27 letters in envelopes, 9 postcards, what he looked like. All I have left is for father. went back home very happy. uncle. Perhaps she was right — she and 11 on pages from notebooks. Two one memory. There were four of us orphans left. The next day, I went to school. I had taken care of me for so long, it was letters were dictated by children who It was night. My sisters and brother The oldest boy, who was twelve, and didn’t say anything about it because I now uncle’s turn to suffer a bit. But I do not know how to write yet. were asleep, but I couldn’t sleep, so I got three girls. was very proud that I found the school didn’t understand it — I lay on the floor All the letters have been numbered out of bed and went to the kitchen. My When we were left alone, we had no on my own. I wanted to surprise my and refused to go anywhere. I was used and catalogued, so we ask you to sign mother was standing there. (I remember choice but to go live with relatives. That aunt with being able to read and write. to being there, and I was very scared them clearly. If a word is smudged, we can mother a little bit because I was three is when I came to live with my aunt. When I came back, instead of a of uncle. guess it from the content; but the letter when she died.) Then I went back to our I remember my brother and sister mother, who would hug her child and (To be continued in the next issue is not clearly signed, it may be entered room and stood by the door to our parents’ walking on the stairs. My brother went praise her diligence, my aunt was waiting of the Little Review). incorrectly into the book and will be lost. We know that everyone wants to get a response to their letter right away, Changes and but that is impossible. We have to think Littering in the streets carefully before answering, because the improvements answers should be smart and not shoddy, It is really annoying when someone Nowhere in the world are people of pits and orange peels, watchmen got like in many papers for children. is wrong and they keep arguing. For allowed to litter in the streets, but angry, the streets were dirty and no one In those, the editors answer: example, you can tell them, “Go away,” people throw away papers, pits, food, can do anything. In every issue of the Little Review, Your letter made us very happy. Your or “move aside,” and they’ll reply, they spit and blow their noses. They’re But now there is a law that fines people we will write about the changes and letter made us sad. We are glad you like “What are you going to do if I don’t not allowed, but there’s no punishment. 50 groszy or 1 złoty for littering. 20,000 improvements we have made. We will our paper. We are glad you study hard. want to? This is what I feel like doing.” A polite person won’t litter, but when people have already paid the fine, and ask for the advice of various people; We’re worried that your tummy aches. They know they’re wrong, and they they see that everyone else does it, now they watch themselves more. I saw our readers will write to us what they Write us if your tummy has stopped do what they want anyway because you they won’t watch themselves. a man holding a bag on Złota Street, and don’t like — if there is too much or hurting. can’t do anything to them. If they knew The police did not intervene, because then he looked around to see if anyone not enough of something, what they They’re either happy or sad. Or I was stronger, or that there would be you can’t lock everyone up, and besides, was looking, and he threw the bag away. want to know and what they don’t rather, they pretend to love all their a punishment, they would listen, but no one really knows if you can arrest Plum pits fell out of it. I wanted to tell him care about. Of course, we will not be readers and keep thinking about them, because there’s no punishment, they people for littering. to pick them up, but I was afraid he would able to satisfy everyone. Some prefer worried that, God forbid, someone is do what they want. People have slipped and fallen because argue, because it was in the evening. fairytales, others true events, some hurting. like travel, others want historical We won’t pretend and we ask our information. The beginning is always Readers that they don’t pretend, either. Proper working the most difficult, because you have Please don’t write us who loves us, tools The Shomer convention to think about everything; later, you because that’s just a waste of paper. We can repeat what is good, and that’s also don’t have to say that you would like CONTINUED FROM P. 1 There has been sad news from Pales­ this; they have decided to go to Pales­ all right. And there is more time to your letter to be printed. tine lately. tine, and many of them are learning introduce interesting new ideas. Mozes writes briefly: “I would like to Rip the page out and start over? There is very little work. It is very to work in the field. We know that the Little Review is know about airplanes, about the telephone What about pencils that crumble? difficult for many people, and they Last week, 300 older shomers from not very good yet. and the radio.” The wood is hard and the pocket knife is would like to come back. cities all over Poland gathered in Warsaw. S. Najdorf writes: “I would like to know dull. You’ve worked hard, you’re about Some are even coming back. They decided to go to Palestine in about the war.” to start writing or drawing, you don’t The shomrim pay no attention to the near future. Eluś Segał writes: “I would like to even press it down hard and crack! The know if the Little Review will be printed tip breaks off. Sometimes you end up in capital letters.” cutting down a quarter of the pencil A FLASH IN A PAN Henio Justman sent us a math problem, before you get to a more solid piece. CONTINUED FROM P. 1 and nothing else. Those who are calm and patient A short letter can be interesting, while will sigh and hold back their tears; but Just like enthusiasm can be a flash if a thousand or a million knew my that he wasted his life. a long one can be boring. Sometimes, you there are those who get angry. And in a pan, so can fame. Last year, one name and what I look like. If a person is useful, he has friends don’t learn anything from a thick book, in their anger, they stuff the school girl kept talking about Breitbart. She The papers write not just about and is happy, and nobody was ever but a lot from a thin one. inkwell with flies, or scraps of paper, even bought a postcard with his picture useful and decent people, but also made happy because they wrote about and make the pale ink so messy that and cried when he was ill. And now about thieves. God forbid someone him in the papers. Those who wrote to the Little Review: it’s impossible to say what to do next. she doesn’t even know if it’s been a should become as famous as Zieliński; So people shouldn’t write for fame, Miecio Klajnlerer, Samuel Mozes, Alinka Then there are the school books, year since he died. I heard two boys talking on a tram: but to say something interesting, to Gerberbaum, Heniuś Edelsburg, Ludwik often bound so shoddily that even if Szmulek Rzeszewski, who played “So what if he’s a bandit, look bring someone pleasure when they Sigalin, Mietek, Władysław, Felicja you treat them gently like an egg, they chess, was also famous, but now nobody how much they write about him in read it, or to say something important, Zangerówna, Judyta, “The Old Man”, Leon won’t last until the end of the year. knows anything about him. Staiger the papers. The whole police force is interesting or funny. and Z. Nissenbaum, Musiu Seelenfreund, Crayons and paints that don’t color, was famous, there were even songs after him and they can’t catch him.” Of course, it is convenient for the Ch. Lewin, Sara Foremówna, Z. Bodkier, erasers that don’t erase, compasses written about him. And Coogan was These two boys envied what the editors when they know who wrote a Madzia Markuze, S. Bieżuner, Hanna with loose screws, rulers made out of famous, as long as he was little, and papers wrote about Zieliński, but they letter, because these letters are kept Frydmanówna, Jadw. Sieradzka, Boluś wood so soft it chips right away — all now the children of an American waiter didn’t even think about how unhappy — every letter will have its number, Jonas, Cesia L., Józef Ratusznik, Lutek, of these make it difficult to work, and are becoming famous. Not only people he must be. He has to hide, has to run so we know who writes often or not, Future reader, Marysia Bentmanówna, make the already not too happy work are famous, but also animals. Rin Tin — maybe his legs hurt, he’s probably who writes interesting things, who Adam Miński, Henio Justman, Blimcia hours even more unpleasant. Tin the dog is more famous than many hungry, has nowhere to sleep, and he’s has been writing for a long time, or Rozenperl, S. Najdorf, J. Grundland, Dorka If there are regulations that prohibit scholars, and a few years ago, there cold. He’s probably hurt himself while who has only started. Hirszfeldówna, B. Mozes, Leon Kornic, making false bread, butter, or milk, should was a famous trained monkey, but I’ve he was running away. And he knows The letter signed “P.T.” is an im- Helena Mińska, Leon Nissenbaum, Oleś there not be a punishment for those who, already forgotten what its name was. that they will catch him and hang him. portant and valuable letter from a boy Wertheim, L. Zysman, Marek Merecki, in the name of dishonest competition, People should try to be useful, not And that’s it. who is not a “flash a pan,” but who is Tołczyńska, M. Rendel, Beni, Berenius, discourage young people from learning? famous. It’s better that a hundred And then they’ll write about others, thoughtful and inquisitive. Jasio, Jerzy Silberman, Kuba Traub, K. people know I am a good person than and only his mother will cry after him J.K. G. Ber, Eluś Segał, Róża Gutmanówna.

This publication is part of Little Review, Sharon Lockhart’s exhibition The young women of Rudzienko, Poland, contributors to the Polish Pavilion Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska; Deputy copy editor: Paulina Bożek; graphic design: Błażej Pindor for the Polish Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. The exhibition, have selected twenty-nine issues of the Little Review Commissioner: Joanna Waśko; Curator: Barbara Piwowarska The exhibition in the Polish Pavilion is financed by the Ministry exhibition takes its name from the weekly publication the Little to be distributed weekly in the Polish Pavilion for the duration Publisher: Zachęta — National Gallery of Art, Warsaw of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. The Review (Mały Przegląd), which was circulated as a supplement to of the Biennale. These are the first English translations of the Publication coordination: Dorota Karaszewska; translation: Paulina Bożek, translation of Mały Przegląd is co-financed by the City of Warsaw. the daily newspaper Our Review (Nasz Przegląd) from 1926 to 1939. Little Review. Grzegorz Nowak; substantive editing: Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych; Translation and graphic design available under CC BY-SA 3.0 license