FREE WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT TO OUR REVIEW NO. 127 (1937) MAY 10, 1929 IN . (ISSN 2544-0187)

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Every person has many important play, because if someone’s ten, they your colors – red and scarlet, blue I found many new friends, and they heard some kind of a through in her moments in their lifetimes. Every are not nine or eight anymore.” and purple, green and aquamarine. all gave me many beautiful and great throat, through which she passed single one of them is important in its I started thinking about organizing I want to see you all, my moments. moments. When we walked together, her voice – “Altwark!” – with the own way, every single one is differ- my life and how it was going to turn out. I call all of you beautiful, both the bad we talked about one interesting matter. same tone, unchanged even after ent, and there are no identical ones. I had my hair tied with a wide red and good ones, sad and happy, grey The evening was cold and windy. We several years, still hoarse, deep Some of them are changes or spiritual ribbon; I wore a green wool dress with and emerald… Every single one of got to a corner and said our goodbyes, and monotonous voice with its own transformations. a red pattern on it, high boots and you left a deep mark on my soul. shaking our hands. melody. If only I could write sheet When I was six years old, I fell a red velvet coat and a similar red Invisible to everyone but me – you, “Your fingers are crying,” she said. music, I would jot down her yelling, gravely ill and I was sick for a long cap. I can clearly remember the little fleeting moments, you belong to me I looked at her, and she was telling since I heard her so distinctly that it time. My mom took care of me. girl who used to be me, and did not and only to me. No one will take you the truth. My fingers were trembling, still sounds deep in my soul. One night was the most significant expect that one day… away from me. and so was my soul. In those screams I see the eternal of them all. Everybody thought that I met a girl, who later became my Float towards me, beautiful mo- I had many bright moments, with worry of a monotonous life of the ped- I was going to die. Mom held me on friend. I’m not going to describe our life ments, and if any of you doesn’t want unsung songs and hymns sounding dler… After all, is there anything that her lap, there was a doctor and I don’t together. The year was full of important the world to know about you, fear not, in my soul like a magnificent fire and breaks the monotony of her everyday remember who else. A tiny night lamp moments. In spring, I started writing for I will leave you alone, hidden in powerful rhythm in my chest sounding life? Maybe from time to time she was alight. Everyone was whispering poetry, and in the summer we started the confines of my soul. like a bell. I believe that I could lift up will buy something at a bargain price, and moving around on their toes. Mom writing a novel together. There were moments of boundless the entire world and bring it up to the or sell something for more than she says I was unconscious, but I remember The project of the novel was created longing. I missed Bronka, the field, tall and impossible heights. expected. Every day in the morning everything. in the field during one of our trips to the apple tree, the ditch with forget- I feel blooming love, great love to she takes her bag and starts wandering My head hurt terribly, and Mom put get some forget-me-nots. The sun was me-nots, radishes from my garden, everything that is beautiful and good, around the backyards, announcing to cold compresses on my head. I don’t shining bright and hot. I remember the bright, silent thoughts and white bad and ugly… everyone with her monotonous voice remember what the doctor was doing. tall grains and grass, a ditch full of dreams. I missed the old fair hair, Snow was falling. It was spring, and that she is buying antiques… I clearly see my room, filled with frogs and snails, water plants, lilies blue aprons with flowers and starched snow was still falling. It was white, I would like to describe more of my mysterious light, full of mysterious and forget-me-nots. fabric dresses, my old spring poems, soft and it smelled like spring. I re- moments, since what I wrote here is shadows. The room was always bright The novel I started writing is buried the long-forgotten beliefs and trust… membered the “Jungle Book” and the just a small part of everything. There and happy; there was a lot of sun and somewhere deep in my drawer. There One day, going down the street “time of new speech.” I walked down are also those that I cannot describe, flowers. Behind the window, there are two chapters, strangely true. I saw something that was as lonely the street. There wasn’t much snow and there are more of them. was an apple tree, white from all the I strongly believed in that childish as I was, surrounded by darkness just on the sidewalk, so I walked down Murky streams flow along the beds snow in winter and all the flowers in novel. like me and strange, weird like me. It the road, right beside the sidewalk. It of the rails, spring, green in summer and colorful I left my town and went to Warsaw. was a small window, lit up at the top of was ankle-deep and I was very happy. A dirty sky stretches above the in autumn with colored leaves and ripe It was autumn. On the day before I left, a tall, gloomy wall of one house. The Spring revealed itself to me in white street, apples. Beyond, I could see only fields, we sewed the last dress. I was sup- evening was dark and misty. The wall winter snow. A tram squeals mournful songs on meadows and gardens. posed to keep it forever, but I lost it. could not be seen, blending into one The rain and the wind are vastly the turn, My eyes were closed; I often opened Back in the day we used to sew little with the sky, and only this small, lonely important in my life. So many times The corner lamp spreads deceptive them and looked at everything. The dresses for dolls. window hung up there, looking at me I used to walk slowly, breathing in the gleams. most important thing was – and I re- They walked us to the car, and off we in a friendly way. That was a beautiful tiny droplets on rainy days in autumn. In the rainy gloom, in the mud, a car member it the best – that Mom was went. I did not say a tender goodbye and solemn moment. Ever since, when Every time I have so many strange, rushes along madly, holding me on her lap. to Bronka, because I thought I was I felt sad, lonely and longing, I went abnormal and uncommon thoughts and And sprays brown droplets onto After that night I slowly started going to visit her and see her soon. out to the street and looked at that feelings. I feel and love stronger, or the passers-by. regaining health. And something Mum told me that Warsaw is not at small, strange window. And I felt good I don’t feel anything at all and every From up above, a small window, really strange happened – I did not the end of the world, and that I could when it looked back at me… feeling I have is reduced into one brightly lit, remember anything from my childhood come to Wieluń from time to time. New feelings appeared, and with undefined lump of feelings… Gleams and shines with a brave before I fell ill. Often the adults have The car started. I looked out the them came a wave of new moments. Today in the morning I had yet look in the darkness. memories from when they were four, window. Bronka was running after the I started thinking in a different way another important moment. For the A drunk, hunched-over vagabond three or even two, and my earliest car, calling my name. I stood on my than I used to think before. I formed first time I heard how the antique sleeps by the wall, memory is that fateful night. I only seat, because the window was really new dreams – and suddenly I could peddler yells “Altwark! Altwark! (Old Tightly wrapped in a tattered coat. remember everything that happened high, I stuck my hand out and waved understand all the pretentious people. things!)” Until now, I only had some A wet dog sneaks by, cowering, since I was six. at her, but soon we turned, and every- Back in the day, I could not under- auditory experiences, but today in the Hungry, lost, unwanted, alien, bent. This night is important for thing – the market square, the street, stand those who cried when everyone morning I really heard her. I distinctly Madzia me,because it took part of my childhood the houses and Bronka – disappeared. could see, loudly admiring the beauty away and threw me into dark oblivion. We got to the road with stubble on of the setting sun, telling everyone Another important moment was my both sides. about their feelings and experiences. birthday, when I turned ten. It was My head was filled with void and I thought that they were pretending, MENDEL’S DIARY a cloudy winter morning, and large lazy thoughts. This was an important that everything they did was fake. snowflakes were falling from the sky. moment of Thoughtlessness and They bored me to no end and I felt IN THE TOWN went to Zakopane. The photographer I woke up and got dressed, slowly and Fore-sadness. I wasn’t even sad. irritated looking at them. I wouldn’t 31 VII – On Monday we went to Paproć is working already. lazily tying my shoes. Only then did I was just empty, strange, devoid of tell anybody what was going on deep with Aron. At first, I didn’t want to A boy from America came with his I remember that it was my birthday any feelings. in my soul if my life depended on it. go, but when Debora joined us, we father to visit the family. He is very and that on that day my eleventh year I wasn’t enjoying the trip to Warsaw, I showed people my poems, but I could decided to go. The school there has four and talks about interesting things. on this world started. I thought: and the city did not leave a lasting not talk about them. grades, and the teacher is a German. 6 VIII – I’m writing in the field. I’m “Yesterday I was still nine, so my impression on me either. I left the One day I received a letter from my We talked to the pastor, who’s 88 years reading novels by Maupassant, one age had just one number in it. Today train and heard the city noise, I saw friend, written over 12 pages in red old. He was very nice and told us many book per day, and I bathe several times I’m ten – two numbers. And from that the tall houses, brightly lit streets and ink – a hopeless and boundlessly sad interesting things. We spent the night a day. I talk a lot with the American boy. moment on, I’m always going to have shop windows, but that did not leave letter. Bronka just recovered from an at a German man’s house, and the He doesn’t know the life in a small town two numbers: 11-12-14-17… Never me speechless in the slightest. illness, she missed me and she was pastor asked him to let us stay. We at all. I saw a boy get caught stealing again am I going to be six, seven or Grey, colorless feelings and unhappy. I stood by the window and slept in a barn. The night was cold. peas. The son of the landowner killed nine years old. thoughts. Beautiful moments of my cried. For the first and only time in We woke up at 4 o’clock in the morn- a duck and wounded another one for And I will have to study all the time. life, come and gather together, stand my life I was not ashamed of my ef- ing. Our host did not want any money getting in the oat field. That’s barbaric. I will be serious; I won’t be able to in a single line in my soul. Let me see fusive tears. for the supper. On Wednesday, Aron CONTINUED ON P. 3 2 THE LITTLE REVIEW MONDAY, MAY 10, 1929 IN WARSAW. THE STREET

TEASING wood for her. It’s nothing for me, and to hit all the curbs. It was obvious that PICKPOCKET Then we went to the kin. I will write about what happened to me. it will be great help for her.” he was drunk. We drove like that to While with my friends, I stopped Heniek from Piotrków One day I was going to school with I took a step forward and I was Nowolipki Street, when suddenly the in front of a shop window on Leszno * * * a bottle of tea in my hand. I was passed about to speak to her, but I couldn’t. car hit a huge pile of snow and two Street. Suddenly I felt someone taking BRAWLS AND GAMES by a group of girls who laughed at me Something held me back, as if I was wheels became stuck in the pile, while 30 groszy from my pocket. I live on Krakowskie Przedmieście, that I was going to school with a bottle. ashamed or embarrassed, like I was two other stood firmly on the road. The boy who stood next to me opposite of the Royal Castle. I often I didn’t respond, I just went my way. going to do something evil. If the pile collapsed, the car would tried to escape, but my friend went go to the Old Town market square to I’m writing this to show everyone I couldn’t muster up the courage, certainly fall over on its side. We sat after him, managed to grab him and play with others. that it’s not only boys who tease the and I felt uncertain. Finally, I decided like that for several minutes, afraid of threatened him with the policeman We played football there, ran around girls, but that girls also tease the boys. to say nothing and just wait. I saw moving or even breathing, while crowds who stood on the corner. the mermaid statue and biked together. Kubuś from Karmelicka Street how difficult it was for her. of onlookers just stood around, as if they People gathered around, and the All the time, we had to fight with * * * I kept thinking about this situation for were witnessing something beautiful. boy tried to pretend that he found Polish boys, who constantly attacked WORRY a long time, and I kept berating myself. Then we were pulled from the the money and asked me to swear us. Sometimes they won, sometimes I took 15 groszy from my mum and I couldn’t do even such a small thing. car, and the driver started trying to that it was mine. we were on top. Whoever won the fight I went to use a phone. The local con- Why couldn’t I find any strength and disperse the crowd in order to avoid At first I didn’t want to agree to stood on the stones near the mermaid, fectionery had a “phone is working” courage, why couldn’t I control myself? attracting the police to the scene. that, but I really needed the money, basking in glory, and then we bought sign on the door. I entered the store Jerychonka from Rypin Wacław so I swore. each other ice cream. and asked whether I could call. They * * * * * * Embarrassed, he had to give me Sometimes we fought for real, told me I could, but when I called, the AN EVIL FATHER AN ACCIDENT my 30 groszy back. sometimes just for fun. When there line was busy. I called twice, and they There is an unfinished house at the On my way to school, I saw a girl trying Itka, Salusia and Hania weren’t enough boys on Polish side, had me pay 30 groszy – but I didn’t back of our school. On Saturdays, local to cross the street, slip and fall, and * * * they took some Jews to join them, and manage to call anywhere. boys gather here and we play together. then almost get run over by a cart. A SAD INCIDENT when there were too many of them, Celinka One Saturday we were also there, but Only then people started shouting, the When I was going home from school some Poles joined us to fight on our side. * * * suddenly some older man came to one cart stopped and some people helped on Friday, I saw a large gathering In the winter, we had snowball fights. A PRANK of the small boys and said: the girl back to her feet. around the store with galoshes and In the spring, they started renovat- One day, I went on a trip with my “Gay arub fun danet. (Get away At school, I could not focus on snow boots. ing the houses around the Old Town, cousin. He gave me a tram pass and from here.)” whatever the teachers were saying, I didn’t know what it was all about. and everything was painted. We came told me I could ride a tram without The boy, almost crying out of shame because I could not stop thinking about Only later I saw a woman’s boots on to watch the works. my school ID card. I believed him and and fear went to him, and the man the girl. the sidewalk and I learned that the The worst thing is that they took we got on a tram. grabbed the boy, took some telephone Please print my letter, and I will thief had tried to steal them. the mermaid and the market square My cousin immediately showed his wire out of his pocket and started beat- always write to the Little Review A mounted policeman was passing was left without our assembly point. ID card, and the conductor asked me ing him relentlessly, murmuring some Henia from Ciepła Street by and gave chase – it turned out to Our group broke apart, and the to show mine. I just stood there and strange words. * * * be successful. The thief was short, rest meeting in the reading room on I did not know what was going on with Then he pushed him towards the A RUN-OVER WOMAN hunchbacked and dressed rather poorly. Piekarska Street. me. The conductor looked at me, and gate, hearing our voices of disdain I was crossing Bielańska Street, when When the policeman tried to take him Moniek from Zamkowy Square I kept looking at him. Thankfully, there and disapproval. suddenly a car swerved onto the side- to the station, he tried to escape, but * * * was a stop and I quickly ran away… A few minutes later, we all went home, walk and hit a woman. The people the officer could easily catch him again. GLORY TO THE HEROES Otherwise I would probably have to thinking about this unpleasant event. gathered around because everyone Out of a sudden, the wife of the A young lady boarded the train from jump out of the tram. Stasiek from Gęsia Street was curious about what was going on. thief appeared with their child and Lviv to Warsaw. She had a heavy Jakób * * * The woman was pale and could not started screaming: suitcase, but no one was willing to * * * TO HORSE OWNERS move from where she had fallen. Some “Let him go!” help her. STUPID PRANKS People should respect horses, but sadly, men helped her sit on the stairs to I don’t know whether he did it out Suddenly, to the surprise of the I got on a tram in Krasiński Square. Near no one really does. The carters beat the Polish Bank, where she regained of poverty or something else. I pity people there, a priest took the suitcase the Saxon Garden, a man boarded the them relentlessly. consciousness. that poor man. from her, lifted it up to the shelf and tram. He took a destroyed pass, rolled One day, when I was going down the A policeman stopped the car and Szlamek from Krochmalna Street gave up his own seat for her. The lady it up and started to prod me with it, and street with my friends I saw a carter wrote a note, and the poor woman was * * * was so embarrassed, she didn’t even when he was getting off, he tore it into beat a horse. I pitied the poor animal taken to the hospital by ambulance. THERE ARE DECENT know what to do. pieces and threw them down my shirt. and shouted at the man, but he threat- When I returned home, my head PEOPLE OUT THERE There’s more! At the end of her I don’t think that was very smart. ened me with his whip. hurt and I could not stop thinking While going home from work, I saw journey, she did not call for a porter, Judyta I wanted to go to the policeman and about it. a 40-year old man in the Saxon Garden. because she did not have any money. * * * tell him about it, but I didn’t manage to, Zosia from Kapucyńska Street He was rummaging through an open The priest wanted to lend her some, AN OLD MAN because the cart turned into another * * * suitcase on the ground. but she did not accept. When I left school, I saw an old man in street. A CART ACCIDENT It was dark, and only some electric Sadly, we don’t live in a world where the corner. He sat at the stairs leading I returned home, depressed. And I had been waiting for the 0 tram lamps cast some lights on the scene. it is possible to help each other without to the grocery store. On his chest, he now I want to address all horse owners for fifteen minutes, it was late and A man approached with hands behind getting embarrassed. had a sign saying that he’s blind and to have mercy on the poor animals, I was in a hurry because I didn’t do his back and asked: Then the priest paid the porter and a big can with some coins in it. which are so gentle and useful. my writing assignment yet. On the “Did you lose something?” pointed out the Jewish girl, so that he I looked at him for a moment, put Beniek corner of Smocza and Dzielna Streets, “Yes, I lost two pairs of children’s would pick up her suitcase and boxes. 5 groszy in his can and went home. * * * I saw a cart pulled by two horses, uppers.” I’m sorry, but for certain reasons, I saw many rich people who passed VENDING MACHINE filled with bags of flour, and the tram Then, the man showed his hands I cannot sign the letter with my name. him by and did not even look at him. In Bankowy Square, a group of boys clipped its wheel. and gave him the two pairs of uppers Young Jewish girl from Będzin Mania from Kupiecka Street surrounded the vending machine. The driver’s side windshield of the that the other one lost. * * * * * * I also decided to hang around, and tram shattered and the right side of the Just think about what would happen KINDNESS A LAME MAN they started telling me: cart was ruined, some of the bags fell to to that man if he wouldn’t have the When I read the article “Kindness When I was going home from school, “Put some money in, you will get the ground and flour went everywhere. uppers returned to him? Perhaps he is Week in Japan” in Our Review, my I saw a poor lame man, who was beg- an R!” The tram driver explained to the an apprentice working for someone and heart started racing and thoughts ging for money. It was cold. I had 80 I put 10 groszy in the machine, policeman that the engine was dam- he would get fired? Suffice to say, he started crowding in my head. groszy that I needed, but I could not I pulled the lever, but the chocolate aged and the tram first could not start was happy as if he just won a dollar coin. “What about us? Here, the people look at him holding out his hand, so never came out. They started laughing on Żelazna Street, and then it went I will remember that incident for are different…” I gave him all the money. out loud, saying: very slowly. a long time, because I liked it very much. Last week, when I went to see my When the man saw that he had 80 “Nothing’s going to help you now! As a result I was late to school, Lola Róg friend, Chańcia, she wasn’t at home. groszy, he stood up at once, but he was We didn’t get anything as well!” and I’m angry at the management for * * * Her father just said, “She’s not here!” cold and he could not walk. I took him by They didn’t know I already knew letting damaged trams leave the depot. SECRET ORDER and slammed the door. I was shocked his arm and started guiding him across this trick. I put my hand in the opening Jehuda During today’s assembly, the rosh of at being treated that way and I will the street. When we were crossing, there and pulled a piece of paper they used * * * our kvutza wrote a secret order: never go and visit her again. were trams passing by, and he fell on to cover it. When I pulled it out, I got A FIRE “At 6:40, be at 1 Trybunalski Square.” When I went to summer camp in the tracks after dropping his cane. my chocolate. Seeing that their plan I was walking with my friends, and We fulfilled the secret order and Ciechocinek, I met Miss Edzia, who I picked up his cane, gave it back failed, they started asking me to give then suddenly we heard the sound of waited in the entryway. It was very worked as a secretary. to him – and returned home. them the wrapper, but I told them: a trumpet. A fire brigade was rushing to cold, but we did not care. We waited Whenever anybody asked her about Chaim from Gęsia Street “You’re not going to get anything, a fire somewhere. We ran to the corner for the rosh impatiently. Suddenly, something, she responded as if she * * * because you tried to rob me of the of Grzybowska and Żelazna Streets, two scoundrels appeared and one of hated children. It was the only stain WHY? chocolate and the wrapper!” and there was a crowd, surrounding them said: on the beautiful memories from the I went down the stairs on my way Moniek from Miedziana Street five fire department cars. “What are you looking for here, summer camp. to the backyard. I saw an old lady, * * * In the background, we saw fire in the you Jews?” The janitor at our house? I suffered carrying a bunch of wood. DRUNK DRIVER windows. We stood there for a moment We didn’t respond and kept waiting, a lot, when he called my sister “garbage.” I let her go first, and then suddenly On Sunday evening I got in a car with and watched, and then I returned home even though one of them hit Jakow. Will our country be like Japan one I had a thought: my mum. At first, the car was driving with clouded thoughts. At that moment, rosh came and the day? “I should help her! I’ll carry the smoothly, but then the driver started Marysia from Twarda Street scoundrels ran away. Syma THE LITTLE REVIEW MONDAY, MAY 10, 1929 IN WARSAW. 3 FROM A TOWN TO WARSAW

I was just 8 years old when I came from I lost one on the way. I was tired and Then, I saved up some marks and patrolled. Everything I earned went My friend from the cheder was mad a small town of Baranów to Warsaw. very sleepy, so I quickly went to bed. bought 40 candies. My friend from to my mother. at me and he ratted to everyone that My father perished during the war Mom was looking for a job and she the cheder didn’t want to tell me the I did not know how to count very I was selling candy on the street, as if and my mother wasn’t really doing did not allow me to go out, because location of the factory, he just bought well, so it always worried me that he wasn’t doing it as well. The others that well. I lived with my grandpa, she was afraid I would get lost. It was them for me. I also had to get a box something was always wrong with told the rabbi, and he realized that this but he died as well. before Purim. and some twine. my money. I thought I was losing it was the reason for my poor results. He My oldest sister lived in Warsaw. I was surprised that I didn’t see The boy didn’t want to stand with somewhere, so mum made a big pocket was angry at my mom, asking her why When she heard that I have problems any kids making masks. For a second me, because people wouldn’t buy for me. It was the most difficult to sell she allows me to peddle on the street and nowhere to go, she wrote me to I thought no one celebrated holidays anything. I agreed and moved to the anything when it snowed and when and have bad grades, so she forbid me go to Warsaw, as she thought it was here. I even saw some Jews smoking Dzika Street, where I was screaming it was cold. I couldn’t open my box from selling candy and I didn’t have going to be better there. on a Saturday. in Yiddish: and no one bought anything. I didn’t money any more. I was still very young. I was happy In Baranów, for Purim, I’d buy “Tzvay karmelkis far ayn mark! like to stand with other boys, because I will also tell you about my first that I was going to ride on a train and colored paper, glue and cardstock and (Two caramels for one mark.)” when someone wanted to buy from me, trip to the Skala cinema on Dzielna see carriages that can go without do everything myself, here in Warsaw At first, I was very embarrassed they would start screaming that they Street. When we got in, my friend horses in Warsaw, but it was sad to I spent all my time at home, sometimes to scream loudly on the street, but had better candy, and when someone bought the tickets, I sat in my seat leave my rabbi and my friends from I’d get out with my mom. other boys did the same. When I earned bought from me, they threw snow into and waited until the text and images the cheder behind. After the holidays, mom said I would 20 marks, mom was proud and gave my box and the chocolates would melt. would appear on the screen. I didn’t After saying our goodbyes, we went go to cheder again. I was happy that me 50 marks, so I could buy a whole On the other hand, it was safer to know how to read back then, so I was to the train station and mother bought I would be able to see the streets again. wooden plank box. stand with other boys because some- bored, but then there was a family on two tickets. There was a crowd waiting I liked Dzika Street the most. When I told my friend how much one would always notice a policeman the screen and some other images. for the train, and when it finally arrived, The cheder in Warsaw was better, I earned on that day, he was very angry, and alert others, so everyone could I thought everything was happening everyone started pushing in order to because I came back home at 4 o’clock because he didn’t earn as much, and run. After a while, I had a group of behind the screen, but then I saw get the best seats. We did not manage instead of 10 in the evening, as it was he did not want to buy candy for me friends. a street, a train and other things, and to get in, and so we had to wait. Mum in Baranów, but I was beaten more anymore. He refused to help me, and Sometimes no one noticed the police it was impossible to fit everything in was worried that she spent money for here. The rabbi from Warsaw beat us I couldn’t sell anything for several from afar and we had to run. I would a single room. nothing, but she explained our situation so hard that we almost fainted. When days, so I was angry at him. often lose my goods on the way and No one was able to explain this and they gave us a stamp allowing us someone was late, he didn’t send us Then, I asked the boys who stood end up with a big loss. Once I was also to me, even my friend, who already to wait for another one. We waited all home, instead he would smack us. on the street. For one mark, they caught and the policeman wanted to knew how to read. I would often go night long for the next train. I had a friend at the cheder, who lived showed me the chocolate factory, take my box and take me to the police to cinema, but I didn’t understand It was difficult to get on the next across the hall from us. He showed me where I bought a box of toffee candy. station, but I started crying, so he let anything and only looked at the moving train, but somehow we managed to around in the city and often bought me Meanwhile, I was doing badly at the me go, and another one took the box pictures. squeeze in. It took us all day to get candy. One day he got on the 0 tram with cheder, because candy occupied my with candy from me. Later on, I learned how to read. to the Praga district in the evening. me and we toured Warsaw together. mind all the time. I kept thinking about One day a passer-by gave me 10 I got older, and now I know what’s I was amazed by the Kierbedź Finally, I asked him where he gets all what was better to peddle, where to go marks. I thought he wanted to buy interesting from the pictures on the Bridge. Then, I kept looking at trams the candy. He told me he earns money by with my box and how to sell the candy. something, but he didn’t take anything cinema building. and tall houses. selling candy. I wanted to do the same, After several weeks, I already and just went his way. I was very wor- I go to elementary school and I’m Finally, we got to 13 Pawia Street. but I did not have money to buy any, and knew many streets and factories, ried that I couldn’t say thank you to in the 6th grade. I took two pumpkins for my sister, but my mom didn’t want to give me cash. I also learned where the police rarely this man. BENJAMIN

MENDEL’S DIARY attended the funeral. It was the second her daughter on the street. I would like I DON’T BELIEVE CONTINUED FROM P. 1 time I saw a drowned person. Last to still live in 100 years’ time, but not year a student perished the same way. as an old man, rather as a young boy. I was overcome with a sense of doubt. I thought she was going to laugh at it I can’t write more, because my pencil Such images deeply affect the human I asked an old Christian whether I no longer believe in friendship or disregard that just like I did before. is too short. mind. The more dead people you see, he remembered what he was doing and it seems that I will never believe I was wrong. Oh, how disappointed 9 VIII – A cousin came to visit the less afraid you are of your own when he was 20. He told me he didn’t in it anymore. Many times I realized I was in you, my dear. us, and he stayed for a week. I like mortality. We cannot comfort ourselves remember a thing. Everyone should that friendship is but a delusion like Your pride was hurt, and you went him very much. He’s nice and smart. the same way our grandparents used have their own diary to remember everything else in the world. away, saying a cold goodbye, leaving I discussed many things with him. to do. We aren’t brave enough to tell the past in order to understand youth. I had several friends, and I parted me astonished, angry and devastated. Yesterday we walked around with girls ourselves that it’s all in vain and noth- 23 VIII – On Monday, our town was ways with all of them with much pain Did it cross your mind that your and talked about love. The American ing will be left of us. We talked about visited by Mastboim, the Jewish and bitterness. After several disap- actions hurt me? Did you spend just boy photographed us in the garden. this with the boys. writer. He gave a lecture titled “The pointments, I decided not to get close a moment to think about the conse- I’m going to write a letter to Aron 15 VIII – A dog hurt our cat. We Modern Jewish Woman.” I wanted to to any more classmates, and for quite quences of your actions? and go to sleep. bandaged its leg, but the cat tore the talk to him. I met him near the bridge a long time I lived alone, apart from Oh, I know you. I know that you sail 12 VIII – Friday. They are calling bandage off and just hops around on and asked him for a pencil, he said he everyday school life. through life with no regard towards any- people to the synagogue. I finished read- three legs. didn’t have any. I didn’t know how to Suddenly – my life took a sharp thing or anyone, never looking behind. ing Mastboim’s “Three Generations.” I didn’t read anything today, because start a conversation. turn. I found a friend. But maybe, just maybe you also The night was beautiful. I spend time I didn’t exchange the book yesterday. I attended the lecture and honestly It happened without my will, we regret the end of our relationship? mostly around boys, because I’m bored The streets are dark, it’s a sad night. I was expecting more of such a famous just became close all of a sudden and Would you deal with the pain of our with girls. I don’t know what Szymon 16 VIII – The American boy left with writer. Perhaps he disregarded our small being together felt just great. divide so easily – you, who shared saw in them. his father. They are going to be in , town, did not prepare anything and just I didn’t hide anything from her, we the happiness and sorrow with me? 14 VIII – I just returned from visiting our relatives. He promised he said whatever came to his mind. At the did everything together because I loved Is it possible that you would let me Ursanki, where I saw three brothers would write. He doesn’t know Yiddish end, he recited a poem. This was the her so much, I loved her pretty face doubt the honesty of the Friendship who had drowned. It shocked me. and understands just a bit, but he’s still second Jewish writer I saw. and intelligence. that we discussed so often? The burial will take place tomorrow. very young. I liked talking to him. His Why am I walking around with girls? I still love her, even though the ties If you love me like you used to do, The entire town is talking about that, father isn’t proud and haughty at all, I don’t know. I don’t know what I’m of friendship that kept us together come back to me, my little black-haired and I still see them right in front of even though he’s rich. I’ll miss him. going to do next year. I spend most of were cut. friend. Come back and you will find my eyes. I especially remember the 17 VIII – It’s rainy and I’m sad, but my time on reading, and I’m bored only I cannot blame myself for that, it a heart ready to accept you back. middle brother with black hair. They somehow I like that sadness. I have when I don’t have a book handy. The was all her fault. Perhaps she thinks Only if you want to return unwill- drowned in the Bug River. They came been walking around with girls. I wrote long evenings are starting. The street she can do anything because she’s ingly or reluctantly, you better not come for the summer from Warsaw. The a lot of letters. While I was writing, it is sad – and my soul is sad as well. It’s pretty and so on. back at all, and I will keep our loving oldest was 17, the middle one 15 and dawned on me that nothing ever changes hard to believe that summer has passed, For too long I had to deal with relationship in my fond memories the youngest was 12 years old. I saw in the world. Life is like a cog, it turns along with the will to live. Sometimes her shenanigans, in the same man- as pure and undefiled even with the the oldest brother several times when in one way only, and cannot return to it seems that the whole life is but a big ner a loving mother deals with the coldness of your goodbye. he was around here. He was a Polish its previous position. What already joke. A large city doesn’t see the sun, whims of her beloved child, but then Our friendship brought me a lot scout, and completed seven grades happened will never return. A young the moon or the clouds, and people don’t I snapped… On the day we ended our of happiness, for which I’m eternally of middle school. When the oldest person doesn’t believe they will grow think about many things in life. relationship, she teased me terribly thankful. brother started drowning, the middle old and die. Today, Bińcia and Sura are 30 VIII – I didn’t do anything for about something, and even though I don’t blame you for what happened. one wanted to save him and plunged getting together. In seven years another a whole week. I was looking for a book, I asked her to stop and even though Nature has made you beautiful, light and to his death. The locals didn’t want to Bina and Sura will walk around. Another but I didn’t find it anywhere. I wrote she knew how painful it was to me, adventurous. Be honest: you were bored help. The youngest one looked like he generation will come, and they will think a long letter to Szyje and Herszel. I’m she did not cease her teasing, saying by simple, sincere and loving friend? was sleeping. The oldest brother was about us the same we think about the not going to go to Warsaw. They told that she was enjoying it. I have one word for you: Godspeed! very bloated. They had a very young old generation, and they will criticize me I can complete the 7th grade of I didn’t say anything to that. I only wish you would think about mother. The funeral ceremony was the unfair and unpleasant world. The elementary school here. They blame Then, turning everything into a joke me from time to time, but don’t think this morning. No one was hysterical, old suffering will go away, and new me for everything. I am jealous for the I said something nasty to her – far less about me badly – just as an honest and even their mother – very religious reasons to suffer will appear. people who can learn. I keep hoping and nasty than what she said, so that it trustworthy person. and brave – didn’t cry. They still have I have a strange sensation when waiting for what the future will bring. would not hurt her pride too much. ANKA one daughter and one son. Many Jews I see a mother walking together with (TBC) 4 THE LITTLE REVIEW MONDAY, MAY 10, 1929 IN WARSAW.

DOMESTIC NEWS

KALISZ – Irka’s brother likes potato way, in line with the idea and with to go to the countryside in spring. We received 26 letters from the pancakes very much. – Sula got a piggy what the parents think. – Lucia enjoys spring together with province, 37 from Warsaw and 1 from bank on her birthday and saved up * * * the sparrows. – Boluś is worried that abroad. 7 złoty. – Jadzia’s parents traded their KOWEL – Fira wants to have a brother. the Pesach is over already. – Józio small flat for a large and comfortable – Niusia’s cat ate some liver, got sick and was proud that he knew kashes this one; Jadzia wrote about her adventure died. – Wowik read a funny story about year. – Dad promised to get Blimcia JOKES with a boy and sent three jokes. – Zuzia dirty Fipcio. – Grysza’s mother is going a watch for finding a matzoh. – Cesia wrote a nice report from a school ball, to Warsaw. – Mareczek’s birthday was helped her mother with everything MECHANICS where three prizes were awarded for fun, there was a barrel on the table and for the holidays as much as she could. “I don’t know what happened to my the best costumes. – Guta is bitter, every child was drawing lots. – Szajndla – After an interesting dream Lolek watch. It doesn’t work anymore, it’s because her teacher addresses her as got a beautiful bag with a mirror and woke up under his bed. – In Frania’s probably dusty. I’ll have it cleaned.” “Miss”, even though she graduated just a handkerchief from Mareczek for her heart, a spark of hope starts a great “Don’t do that. We tried to give half a year ago. – Lutek dreamt for birthday. – The dark and silent night fire. – Szlamek’s heart pounded near it a starting kick for two hours this a long time to write to the Little Review makes Mojżesz think about a lot of the end of “Palestinian Nights.” – The morning.” but he couldn’t muster up courage. – things. Only then he is able to write plebiscite in Otto’s reading room was Renia wants the correspondents of the in his diary. won by “Marjorie’s Quest,” followed Little Review from Kalisz to get closer * * * by “In Desert and Wilderness.” – Felek BRAIN TEASERS together and asks the editors to help. KNYSZYN – Heniek was very happy condemns beauty pageants, instead he * * * when the teacher got better and re- would like to see hard work pageants. Correct solutions to the 17th Brain KAŁUSZYN – Chaim doesn’t know turned to school. – Edzia is mad that her letters aren’t Teasers were submitted by: where to look for justice, when Jewish * * * being printed. Irka Abramowicz, Szmul Bejbe, boys were beaten by the police and KUTNO – Heniek gets ready for the * * * Chaja Bejmblat, Tania Bielinko, Lola Christian boys were let go for the middle school, and when he passes, SUBMISSIONS: Blumental, Moniek Boksenbaum, same infraction. he is going to get ice skates from his Celina, Mila, Estusia, Paweł and Dawid Edelist, Józef Edelszejn, Michaś * * * mother. – Jehuda submitted an article Tosia – poems about spring; Efraim, Fajwisz, Lilka Feldblum. Sala Feldblum, KAMIENIEC – Hanka sent us a fan- about human suffering and a poem Jakób, Sewek and Ignaś – poems; Dawid Frydman, Lewek Glikman. tastic story about an old oak tree. about spring. – Mita wants the Little Anka – poem about school; Henia Tola Glikman, Izaak Grynbaum, * * * Review to announce a competition for – about winter in the city; Gucia – E. Heyman, Zosia Hochbaum, Szymon KATOWICE – Anusia wants to be- the most beautiful child. a short story; Guta, Srulek – about Kaper, Piniek Kossowski, Sala Licht, come a doctor and treat only poor * * * the Pesach; Marek and Lola – about Marek Majngarten, Berek Margines, people. LESZNO – Zygmunt regrets that the Purim; Reginka – a short story and Józio Mazurek, Heniek Mühlstein. * * * Little Review is a paper for children drawings; Mania – a dream; Henio Mirek Nisenhauss, Z. Rajzman, Sala KAZIMIERZ – Mitka asked why and doesn’t cover any issues of youth. – a joke; Heniek – a ‘thank you’ for Rozenfein, Mika Spiro, Klara Szapiro, the Little Review did not print the * * * a book; Reginka – a colorful drawing J. Szleistein, Dawid Sztern, Dawid and photographs of Miss and Miss LIDA – Fańcia’s soul lightens up when of knights; Maryla, Marek, Heniek, Jadzia Tyrman, Bela Wajcentreger, Polonia. she thinks about spring. Stasio and Sala – drawings. Henryk Winograd, Leoś Wortsman, * * * * * * The following children brought their B. Zamek, Mieczyk Zapolski, Zunia KIELCE – Henryk likes to learn, but LIPNO – Henia is surprised that drawings to the Newsroom: Anka, from Konwiktorska Street. often comes late to school. – Andziunia books about Zionism are nowhere to Izaak, Hadassa, Heia, Henia Judyta, Late solutions for the 16th Brain is angry at her father for not keeping be found and she thinks that people Lonia, Mietek, Reginka, Saba, Szlamek, Teasers were submitted by: his promise to buy her toys. – Eścia collaborating with “Haynt” should Celinka, Estusia, Fela, Guta, Halinka, Irka Abramowicz, Mirka Spiro, dreams of being an admired movie publish booklets about that. – Class Izio, Jadzia, Mendel, Roma, Stefcia, Dawid and Jadzia Tyrman. actress. – Bala regrets that her dream 5A responds to Izaak that he didn’t Adek, Harry, Edzia and Zosia. of Palestine was not a reality. – Leja act like a gentleman because instead The following children brought believes that those who suffer should of helping, he only hurt someone who their creations to the Newsroom: READERS’ REQUESTS have strong will to fight evil. – Sala was weaker than him. Lucia – a cardboard ashtray; Bela – pities a young boy who was killed while * * * curtains; Adek – a pen and a shelf; Jerzyk begs all the mothers to have trying to earn a living. – Kubuś says LUBARTÓW – Dad promised Edek Edzia – a house and a flashlight; Irka mercy on their children, to be less that people can never be satisfied. In and Staś to buy them bikes – on two – a pillow; Mala – a doll hat; – Hela angry and more forgiving towards summer they want winter, in winter wheels for the former and on three framed the pictures. them. they want summer. for the latter. – Dawid dreamed about Rachel asks for advice, because the * * * a white angel who spread his wings shomer group is really alluring, and KLECZEW – During colder days, Sala and led the Jews to Eretz . CHILDREN’S the director threatens anyone who felt like she was exiled to Siberia. – CORNER joins with expulsion. Halina couldn’t wait for real spring. Irena asks for advice about what * * * to do in order not to read that much, KŁODAWA – Abramek likes it very CURRENT Jerzyk cried because he was scammed because the teacher is angry at her much when his aunt Idzia reads the and given a fake watch. and calls her a “bunch of nerves.” Little Review to him. Stasio drawn his goldfish. Henia asks everyone to have heart * * * NEWS Irka has had a single doll for three for the orphans. KOLNO – Eliasz thinks that the goal of years. Heniek asks the editors to do friendship is collaboration and support- – Seweryn doesn’t have time for writ- Mita does not like sad stories. something so that Miss Judea will ing each other with words and actions. ing, because the teacher won’t give him Jerzyk regrets that Ceśka has left. come and visit their school. * * * a break. – There are no bad teachers Jurek was at the synagogue and Gutek asks us not to “cut” his letter. KOŁO – Zosia’s birthday was on the at Tosia’s school. – If Mietek was prayed to the Lord. Sewek asks for a postcard, because 24th of March. – Halina visited Feluś a teacher, he wouldn’t yank even the Tusia was at Maccabi’s performance. he reads the Little Review on a regular on his birthday. – Rutka is happy that rudest child. – If Mania was a teacher, Little sister teases Irka. basis. it’s not cold outside anymore and that she would punish the rudest children. Micia had pleasant birthday. she doesn’t have to sit at home, bored – Ludwik doesn’t have the calling to out of her mind. – Mira doesn’t go become a teacher. – Syma is worried to school, because she’s sick. She that someone took her two pencils LITTLE REVIEW misses her teacher and friends very at school. – Girls decorated Genia’s much. – Geniek is now seven years old classroom with ribbons, but they were We received 29 letters from children and he’s going to go to the 2nd grade torn down by boys. – Ruta is angry, who already wrote. The first-time after summer holidays. – Pawełek is because the first-grade girls want to submitters were: already writing to the Little Review. pretend they are all grown up. – Lili Kisiel Feji, Gienia Groblass, Hela * * * is angry at her friend. – Ida is angry Kapłan, Jurek Karo, Pola Korczak, KOŃSKIE – Regina cried many times because Anka quickly came to terms Cesia Lebensold, Zosia Lederman, Irka because of the Little Review as her after they ended their relationship. Lichtenstein Mińcia Malberg, Rafałek, friends laughed at her that her articles – Mania has a friend, she’s poor but Pat, Boruch Poczteruk, Edward are not published. very happy. – Lili gets along well with Pragier, Jakób Prawda, B. Rugier, * * * her friend, because they both dance G. Szmuszkowicz, Heniek Wermus, KOSÓW – Shomer Ryśka tells the au- well. – Henia and Cesia are spring Chana Winokur, Józef Zekcer, Emanuel thor of “What to do?” to find a common lovers. – Aleksander’s soul wants Złotkiewicz.

This publication is part of Little Review, Sharon Lockhart’s exhibition The young women of Rudzienko, , contributors to the Polish Pavilion Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska; Deputy copy editor: Paulina Bożek; based on the design by 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: Grzegorz 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. Nowak; substantive editing: Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych; Translation and graphic design available under CC BY-SA 3.0 license