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Today, the teacher advised us that “Maybe they just hid. Maybe A DREAM ABOUT LONG KNIVES AND AN ABYSS gaberdine and with a cane in hand, he we do as many winter sports as we they’ve agreed to play a trick on us.” A MIRROR ROOM This was a Friday evening. Electricity looked like the district rabbi himself. can, especially skating. That’s why “Hello! Leon!” I usually fell asleep with my head sloping suddenly went out, so we went to beds He greeted us and said: we agreed we would meet in Cielętnik Silence. Only an echo responded. to the lower edge on my soft pillow. The earlier than usual. My father opened the “Listen boys, I will take you for this Park after school. “That’s no joke,” said Motek. delightful lethargy would not allow me window to air the room out for the night. trip provided you behave well. Any of As I am not punctual, I was late as “Something must’ve happened to to move higher up the cushion. That’s We mentioned my mother’s departure, you unwilling to obey will get the cat.” usual by 10 minutes. Leon and Motek them.” why my head heavy with thoughts and we talked about the aunts and maybe And then (as in a dream everything were already sitting on a bench. We set off in search of our missing musings rested somewhere at the pil- the uncles. happens right away) we were in the “And where is Maks?” I asked. friends. low’s edge, even if my sore neck called I fell asleep. In my dream, I called park. We formed two factions: the Jews “Probably having his dinner.” After a while, we spotted two hu- out for change of that position. out and shouted with all my strength, and the Egyptians. The Egyptians were Forgetting about Maks, we talked man figures at the bottom of a deep I did not close my eyes. With delight, and ever louder: supposed to hide, and the Jews were to about this and that. Leon was the gorge. I say “human” though as we I watched the windowpane, by then “Catch them!” catch them. Those who caught the most first to notice him. looked at those scrambling snow- dark blue as the clear winter skies They showed me their knives and Egyptians would get candy from the “Oh, here he comes now. But look… covered figures, it was hard to guess behind it. It seemed to me that the told me not to talk or they would kill me. rebbe. I search and search for Egyptians; What’s he carrying?” whether they were people or bears. sky – imprisoned in the glass pane My crying got even louder, until I woke then I hear something splash behind “It’s ice skates,” Motek called. We came up closer. – begged me to remove the glass so everybody up. That is when everybody me. I turn around, and see my brother “After all, he said he was a great “Leon!” I shouted in astonishment. that it could rush into the room with began waking me up. I was grateful for drowning. People try to save my brother, skater. Well, we’ll see; we’ll see “What happened to you two?” its fragrant blue stream. that and told them about my dream. and I just stand on the embankment if he can actually skate down from “Well, we lost it. We didn’t notice The slumber closed my heavy It turned out that the window had and pray that they save him because Zamkowa Hill.” we were skating down at the edge of eyelids, which still held the image of stayed open. Father fell asleep and if he drowned, my father would spank We went up Zamkowa Hill: Maks and a crevasse. And Maks lost his balance. the sky trapped in window glass. My forgot to close it. As our place is on the me hard. Leon with skates in hand, Motek and I tried to catch him by his coat, but he drowsy imagination forced me to drape ground floor, anyone could climb in. We With this prayer, I woke up. I with our sleds. The path was steep is hefty; he pulled me behind him and the pane in a transparent, lightweight searched the premises for any strangers. The next day, I told the rebbe about and slippery. We climbed up slowly, we rolled down to the very bottom curtain. The curtain swayed with soft We looked everywhere. Nobody was my dream. The rebbe fell silent for a long pulling the heavy sleds behind us. here. We’ve been calling out to you and quiet movements and blushed with there. We went to our beds, but could time, and I waited apprehensively as if But the view from the top was for a good half an hour now.” its wonderful pinkiness. In my dream, not get to sleep any more. We had this for a court sentence. worth the trouble. We beheld the “But I called you too. Only an echo I saw how the mirror, which had just strong sense of someone hiding in our Finally, the rebbe said this: entirety Vilnius down below. responded.” reflected the pink fabric, suddenly home. “Listen, son. The fact that your “Oh, how nice it looks,” whispered “Fine, we’ll talk about this later. melted into a silver mist. I felt myself Another time, I dreamed I was skiing brother drowned is a bad omen. Some Maks, who had arrived from Latvia Guys, help us scramble out of this absorbed by that mist and found myself and admiring majestic and captivating misfortune will be visited upon your only recently. wolf’s pit.” in a mirror room. mountains along the way. The farther family. But you can turn that misfor- “Sure thing,” said Motek with pride, Our rescue expedition began its The curtain sways lightly donning I go, the more beautiful the landscape tune around: only pray every Saturday “there's a reason that our city is known cautious descent into the Valley of the its pinkiness against the windowpane, becomes. I climb peaks and ride down, throughout the day, from morning for its beauty. Maksio, you must know White Death, straight at two red-cold behind which the dark blue sky howls and suddenly I fall into an abyss. to night. Come to me once a month that even the foreign press has been noses pointed upward and pleading its cold, moon-cast lament. I slowly regain consciousness. I call passes.” reporting on the beauty of Vilnius.” for a lifeline, which was ultimately I am in the mirror room. Do you out for help. I hear no answer. What will Every Saturday I would pray ear- “Enough of the talking, boys,” Leon formed out of three scarves and one remember? You dreamed of it when- happen to me? Will I remain lying here? nestly. One time, as I stood bent in the called. “Let’s ride!” sweater. ever I spun for you the tales about Won’t anybody come to my rescue and synagogue, an elderly man approached We formed two pairs: Maks and Leon “What a story,” snapped Motek the mirror world. will I perish here? I start crying out me and asked why I wasn’t out playing on skates and Motek and I on sleds. feeling out the slippery ground with I cozy up, with my head in my loud: “Help, help!” with my friends, but continued to pray. The first ride went swell. The sleds his foot. “If my leg slips here, I will grandma’s hands, and we both enter I awaken suddenly. I am overjoyed I told him the whole story. He praised flew downhill as if into an abyss. fall on your heads.” the room’s mysterious depths. Huge as I realize I am not lying alone at the me for listening to the rebbe. We go up the hill once more. “This is crazy!” potted philodendrons don their foliage, bottom of a crevice. I have everybody “God will take pity on you and turn Suddenly Maks exclaims: “It’s worth describing!” and a tiny silver boat looms in the around me. There was some sadness the misfortune away from your home.” “The day is so nice and the course “Let’s send it to the Little Review. middle. Great white flowers bloom in that awakening too: sadness for not My spirits thus raised, I prayed even is great: let’s have a race! I can write it down if you guys want in its depths. being out skiing. more zealously. Of course! We accepted this with me to.” The two of us move slowly through Idzia After a month, I came to the rebbe a Great Lakes’ Indians war cry. “I’ll give you 15 groszy for the the solemn, fragrant stillness of the for further guidance. “Maks and Leon will start straight postage stamp.” room. We carefully brush aside green ONE FRIDAY NIGHT’S DREAM Just as the month earlier, the rebbe down from here,” Motek ordered, “And I’ll donate 10 groszy.” rushes. A boat rocks lightly under our Some superstitious Jews believe that was silent for a long time, before he “while we circle round and down “You’ll get an envelope from me. weight. And suddenly... everything a man dreams of on a Friday finally asked: the hill. Are you ready?” It’s a lucky envelope, I promise: my Grandma’s willowy apparition melts night is sure to come true. “When is your birthday?” “Ready!” aunt received a lottery ticket in it slowly in the air. The huge dark blue It was on a Friday that I dreamed “On the 6th of December,” I replied. “On your marks! One… two… and a week later, it turned out to be eyes I loved so become the night itself. of some strange things. “Listen then. That’s two months three.” a winner.” I remain alone. The little boat rocks It was a beautiful fall morning. Having away. Over that time, you have to raise We took off like swooping birds. “Was it a big prize?” gently. The rushes rustle. jumped out of bed, I stood by the window 2 złoty and buy a mezuzah with it. When The wind whistled in our ears, “It was okay: five thousand.” “Grandma,” I call out with despera- and thought about how I would surprise the family sits down to a supper, you snowcapped bushes flashed by, the “Huh, you never told us about it.” tion. “Grandma, I’m afraid!” my parents on my birthday. After all, will take out the mezuzah, put it down sleds bounced off bumps in the trail “Because it wasn’t worth telling The mirror room is a void. December was coming soon and I hadn’t on the table and recite the appropriate causing our hearts to jump up with about: all my aunt was able to buy “Grandmaaaa!” yet come up with anything. prayer. You will hand the mezuzah to them – partly out of fear and much with it was a dress.” I feel the fear grabbing me by the Suddenly I heard a voice behind me: your younger brother asking him to more out of pleasure. “Just one dress? For five thousand?!” hair and pervade me. “Szmulek, what are you doing? It’s kiss it. Then, you nail it in the place “That was good,” said Motek when “Groszy, my lad, groszy. What she I open my fear bewildered eyes and time to go to cheder.” of the old one on the doorpost. That we reached the bottom, “but why can’t won came out to five thousand groszy.” immediately note there is no mirror I was angry that my father had inter- way, you will prevent any misfortune. we see them? They should be here This is how on one cold winter’s room. Only the sky behind the window rupted my meditations, but that’s too I did everything the way the rebbe already.” day, among adventures and laughter, gleams with the cold light of the stars bad: father must be obeyed. I went told me to and yet my mother got cancer “Let’s wait. They’ll probably arrive we came up with this article, which and the moon. And the heart is regret- running to my cheder. and nothing helped, neither the mezuzah here any second now.” we now send in a lucky envelope, with ful for not being able to leave on the In cheder, my classmates informed nor prayer or the advice from the rebbe: We waited: five, ten minutes... No a stamp we bought together. silvery boat. me we were going to the Paderewski my mom died a year later. sight of them. Akiwa from Vilnius Ania Gincburżanka (Brest) Park. The rebbe came up. In a new Szmulek El. 2 THE LITTLE REVIEW FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1938 IN WARSAW.

You will not guess what I liked the Children have their own flock here: most on that day. As we walked slowly 15 sheep and goats, always accompanied THE HOLIDAY OF TREES in a long line through the village, the by two donkeys. This is the favorite workers came out of the kitchen, the duty for many. When those on duty locksmith’s shop, the carpentry shop return from the cote, no one needs to and of all the other workshops, these ask where they were. You can guess THE EVE OF HAMISHA ASAR What did we actually talk about? That’s salted pumpkin and melon seeds, dried were the parents of these children and by the odor right away. They are happy BISHVAT hard to describe. What a medley of and baked peas, seeds and raisins of not only the parents, the young and the to be honored by the duty of herding We had been walking for a good hour. things: jokes (always followed by peals various shapes and colors, hard candy old, many of them tired and troubled the flock. And imagine the whistles and It was cold outside. We both longed of laughter), riddles, reminiscences of and caramels in colorful, bright and and ... they smiled. But how they smiled other sounds they use while watching for warmth and light. “Where could the previous party, plans for a new one shiny wrappers, the way the people of and observed the colorful procession... their flock. The first time I heard it, we go in,” we thought. (I ask the reader not to be offended with the East like it. And as it was a Friday, that I am unable to describe. when they were passing by my window, “You must’ve forgotten it is BiShvat the manna-like abundance of parties; a holy day for Muslim Arabs, the traffic You asked me what kinds of issues I was frightened; I did not know these today,” I exclaimed. in the absence of other interesting was huge because not only the Jews the young student council deals with were the teachings of the Bedouin My friend was surprised I remem- entertainment in our town, we are were out shopping. here. They are very similar to ours; herdsmen. But now, I've gotten used bered what day that holiday fell on. forced to occasionally organize parties And in Ein Harod? There was even the mistakes they make at the to everything, even the howls of the Not minding her dumbfounded face, by ourselves), preparation of materials a long parade of all the kindergarten beginning are the same, for example: jackals, who give their concerts almost I continued. for the paper telephone game, gossiping and school children that set out to Aja, the hotspur, took on the difficult job every evening. “We will go to Basia and Henia, we (a standard with us girls) and many, plant trees. I am glad I don’t have to of assigning duties and was soon ready You ask me what I do here. Among will pull our resources together, buy many other things. There was also describe to you why the New Year to quit. Josef needlessly undertook to all the varied activities, I have re- some goodies and we will come back some more serious talk about books of trees is held and what they sang edit the daily wall paper; he had not cently been assigned to preparation to your place.” and films. about and said here, because you have calculated the time it takes and now of lemon and orange juice for children. We rapidly reached an agreement The conversation preoccupied and often read in the Little Review about complains he cannot cope. You know the feeling of thirst in the with our friends and proceeded to the engaged us so much that we completely how the Palestinian children celebrate But everyone is happy with the new summer season, how you search out store. Tucha (that’s what I call my friend) lost track of time, when the clock began this holiday. organization. Every week, on the day which store will give you a bigger – ordered some carob, figs, halva, some striking nine. I will only tell you that at the border following the student council meeting, 5-groszy – ice cream scoop. Here the crackers and seeds. I, as the minister of After cleaning up and the traditional of Ein Harod and its neighboring vil- the representatives of the 2nd and the summer is long and hot, so the matter the treasury, financed all of this. Now, chat at the door, lasting solid 15 minutes, lage, they have built a big stage, one 3rd grade report back to their respec- of fruit and juice is very important. with a bagful of those “goodies” we we all went our ways laughing and satis- that is taller and bigger than in any of tive class with such engagement and Lemons are extruded here using an went back to Tuśka (Tuśka and Tucha fied because even though that wasn’t the big theaters of the capital. They integrity. All the resolutions adopted electric machine. There is a motor in is the same name). a real holiday meal, we ultimately spent have concerts and shows there for the at the meeting of the representatives the kitchen to which you can hook up In her room, we pulled out a table, that evening well. entire area whenever a theater or an require the approval of the general a potato peeler or a slicer for carrots covered it with a cloth and laid out our Eńcia from Łomża artist from across the world tour there. meeting, i.e. by simple majority of all and other vegetables, and you can whip goods. Meanwhile, Tuśka negotiated So far, they completed the stage, and the children. egg whites, make noodles and pasta, with her brother to gain access to his A LETTER FROM EIN HAROD for now the audience will be sitting That is the order here, for both or squeeze juice out of lemons with. dominoes. The brother was strongly The editor of the Little Review has this under the open sky. the children and the adults in the As I throw away the lemon peels, against it. “I will agree,” he said, “if ugly habit of storing any late-coming Workers devoted many of their kibbutz. Recently, the adults held I remember the expression: squeezed you include me in your game.” In the letters with descriptions of a holiday free days to the construction of this a general meeting on the question out like a lemon. I also reflect that you absence of other games, we had to agree or celebration until the following year, stage. So now, some 400 cypresses of whether to buy a flock of sheep can do a good job squeezing out a lemon to those terms. but I want to be an exception because were planted around that stage; and for the farm. The children were very manually, and you can do a shoddy and We distributed the remaining money my description will be short and tasty. it was the kids who planted them, as much interested in that and urged their careless job doing so with this smart between us in a fair way. We used them It so happened that I had to go to the sun was shining after the rain, and parents to vote. One of the boys even electric machine. A machine performs as stakes. When we were out of those, Haifa for a few hours on the eve of the blue chain of the Gilboa Mountains went to his father’s office, walked in as the person does. A solid worker will we continued playing with the leftover Hamisha Asar BiShvat. This is es- could be seen from afar. on a meeting and said with bitterness: sew up well by hand what a bungler seeds and carob. I was somehow out of sentially a children’s holiday. I spent The teacher reminded the children “You are sitting here without a care will botch up on a machine. luck, so I looked with jealousy at my a long time standing in front of stalls that it was not enough to plant the trees, while there, at the general meeting, That is enough for today because every friend enjoying her lucky stars and shop windows in the narrow streets and that you had to care for and protect they are discussing the question of the more I write, the more topics come in the form of a fig or a few seeds. of that old town. There were coconuts them to ensure that strong trees would buying sheep. Please, go there and to mind. Then, we all sat down on the couch. and peanuts, roasted almonds, fried and grow out of these frail seedlings. vote for the purchase.” S.W.

B. disdained the teachers. He constantly years or a year. Just think of what will really wanted to. If caught by a teacher, played pranks on them and argued with be happening. I will have to continue you could be kicked out of the school. them about every little thing. visiting the doctor, I will continue hav- But the Consumptive stood up, his eyes A CONSUMPTIVE One time, the geography teacher ing hemorrhages, which is so terribly wide with joy. called him out. The Consumptive exhausting, I will have to continue taking “Well, gentlemen, dear menagerie! came forward, handed the teacher his my medication and hearing my mother This is going to be my final prank. Who He joined us in the middle of the school “From whom? Get off the horse this notebook, stood by the map and began say: ‘Saluś, take care of yourself! Saluś, has some correction liquid?” year. Initially, no one paid any attention instant.” talking about the economy of Germany, don’t go out! Saluś, take your medicine.’ “Here you go. But what happens if to him. He was skinny, with blush on “From a doctor. I am sick with con- unprompted. The teacher listened with I prefer to die a year earlier than to live they catch you?” his cheeks, which looked like two red sumption,” the Consumptive shouted surprise, but finally exclaimed: this way. The heavens will not rend once “They won’t catch me. Anyways, what blemishes, and he was probably the weak- from the other end of the room, still “Look, did I ask you to do that?” I am dead.” can they do to me? I’ll be dead soon.” est in the class. Just an ordinary wimp. sitting on the horse. “No, but the teacher had asked about “Does your mother let you go to He took the correction liquid and left. It was only during his first gymnastics “Get off that horse!” the by then angry that same thing three students before school this way? This is killing you.” We sat there as on hot coals. lesson that he drew attention to himself. gym teacher roared at him. me, so I thought you would ask me about “You think I ask her? I just go and Suddenly we heard steps from the He entered the gym and sat himself on “Why are you shouting at me? I’m the same thing too.” that’s that,” he cut the conversation direction of the teacher’s room. Who the pommel horse and had no intention getting off now.” “Sit down. That’s an F!” short. is it? Maybe there was someone in the of changing into gym clothes. In no hurry, he slowly got down from “Why? Was my answer wrong? What From then on, I had even more respect teachers’ room and the Consumptive They asked him: “Will you exercise?” the horse. mistake did I make?” for him. He was the only man I knew is coming back? “No.” The gym teacher looked at him but “Get out of class; what nerve!” who was truly not afraid of death. A moment later, the Consumptive “Then run off because when the gym apparently came to the conclusion he “Could you not shout at me, please? * * * appeared in the doorway with... a bundle teacher sees you, there will be trouble.” was powerless here because he did not I’m leaving right now.” The Consumptive’s health deterio- of notebooks in his hand. We were all “I couldn’t care less; I have an say another word. He calmly walked out of the classroom. rated. He coughed during class and had dumbfounded, but immediately went exemption.” Later, I talked about this with the Such incidents happened on a daily a hemorrhage one time. He looked ever to work and within half an hour the “What’s wrong with you?” Consumptive. basis. The Consumptive was not afraid of more emaciated and the blush on the notebooks were corrected. “It’s consumption,” he said in a tone “Why did you argue with him?” anyone. He picked fights with everyone, cheeks turned deeper red. The Consumptive calmly took them I would use to say I had a hole in my shoe. “Why did he shout at me?” he an- but no one would strike back at him. “Hey, I won’t go on for much longer,” back to the teachers’ room. When he I looked at him with involuntary swered with a question of his own. Everyone was afraid: what if you smack he told us, “but at the end I’ll show you returned he sat down to play a game respect. A man with consumption who “You provoked him. Think of what the wimp and he starts hemorrhaging? what I am capable of. I will play a prank of chess, as if nothing had happened. talks about it is a somebody. would come out of this if he reported It was better to bear these provocations such as you’ve never seen before. How * * * At the moment, the gym teacher this to the principal.” in silence. can the teachers hurt me? I will die The following day, the Consumptive walked in. “What? Nothing would have On one occasion, as we – meaning soon, anyway.” did not come to school. He was absent “Attention!” happened.” the Consumptive and I – were walking And he did exactly as he promised. one day, two days, a week... he just faded The Consumptive (as that’s how we “They would’ve kicked you out of to school, I asked him: That day right after lunch, we had into oblivion. Sometime later, we learned by then named the newcomer) did not the school,” I tried to scare him, now “Tell me, why aren’t you being common room time. We sat around – the that he died. get down from the horse. growing impatient with his calm. treated? Your family are rich enough Consumptive, Lolek and I – watching The class quickly forgot about him. It “Why aren’t you practicing?” asked “So what! The doctor said I would to take you somewhere where you would a chess game. Suddenly, one of our boys was only on the day we got our report the gym teacher sharply. “Get off the not live through this year anyway.” feel better.” jumped into the room. cards that we all looked at the empty horse.” I could not find any good answer to “By now, I am nearly consumed by “Guys,” he hollered, “our tests are seat the Consumptive used to occupy Still quiet, the Consumptive remained that. my consumption,” he tried to laugh in the teachers’ room, still not marked and saw his frail form and heard the seated. After this incident, the Consumptive it off, “and there is nothing else that up. And there is nobody there. Who words he repeated so often: “I have an exemption,” he shouted and I became friends. He was a mid- can help me. Anyways, I am not inter- will go?” “What can they do to me? I will die back. dling student, neither good nor bad. He ested in extending this by another two We looked at one another. Nobody soon anyway.” THE LITTLE REVIEW FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1938 IN WARSAW. 3

RECEIPT FOR JOSEPH DOMESTIC NEWS FROM VILNIUS Collected at the winter camp of the “Jehudyjah” primary school 10.00 Collected by children among THE TRIAL OF the upcoming trial, addressed a letter Maks got out from under a bench … Ms. Wasilewska visited one of the children at Feldgrasowa’s to the young people. In the letter, he and squealed: former sanatorium beneficiaries in her Guesthouse in Świder 6.50 JOSEPHUS FLAVIUS expressed his appreciation, wished “This was all out of great joy!” home. The floor consisted of several Eli Halpern, Łódź 5.00 them success and at the same time “What joy?” broken boards and clay. In the middle, 1st grade of the Secondary On November 26, 1937, through the announced the upcoming publication “That we will have a ping-pong club the girl stubbornly scrubbed those few School of the Middle School Society efforts of a group of youngsters, the of the third volume of the trilogy, in in our school!” boards. in Grodno 4.65 premises of the League were the scene which he would deliver his verdict to At that point, the Union’s supervis- … One boy was supposed to go to the Madzia from Sierpc 1.00 of a trial of one Josephus Flavius, the his hero, Josephus Flavius. Finally, he ing teacher, a great guy, stepped out sanatorium. Apart from his grandmother, Eugeniusz Dawidowicz 1.00 protagonist of Lion Feuchtwanger’s asked to be notified of the outcome of from among the teaching staff pres- he had no other relatives. Just before Bunio Jonas from Łomża two novels, “Der jüdische Krieg” these court proceedings, a request that ent, gave us a brief order in low voice he was to leave, his grandma wanted (in postage stamps) 1.00 (“Josephus”) and “Die Söhne” (“The was fulfilled immediately upon delivery because he never raises his voice: to give him something for the road, and Jew of Rome”). The public filled the of the judgment in the case. “The entire Union, you go home since the only thing she had was seven Total 29.15 hall to capacity. The young people We are now looking forward to the now!” groszy, she gave him five groszy and Including the previous who participated in the court proceed- judgment to be passed on Josephus Then he turned to us: kept the remaining two. weeks’ contributions 243.32 ings completed their tasks perfectly, Flavius, a citizen of the world, by his “The Union Board stays. Come to One as the children were playing, for which they were rewarded with creator, Lion Feuchtwanger. my office.” a teacher played beautifully on a har- 272.47 tempestuous applause. The speeches Lucyna from Poznań MOTEK from Vilnius monica. The boy approached him with everyone liked best were those of the his outstretched hand and a five-groszy defense attorney and the prosecuting coin in it, and when the teacher finished JOKES attorney, and particularly that of the A BOYS’ UNION WE ARE ERECTING playing, the boy said to him: defense attorney, who won the case. The “Let me play the harmonica for A DELIGHTFUL CHILD presiding judge, Niusia, who conducted MEETING A NEW BUILDING a while; I’ll give you 5 groszy.” “Please, give me a pot of marmalade,” the entire hearing in an impeccable He was not aware you could get says eight-year-old Jasio as he hands manner deserves commendation. We just established a Boys’ Union The press conference held at the Medem something for free. the dish to the grocer. The (court of appeals) trial agenda in our school. On Wednesday after Sanatorium in Miedzeszyn brought to- … It is only in the sanatorium that The grocer fills the small pot, hands was as follows: school, we held a meeting of the gether great many guests. They were the child learns that teeth should be it back to the boy and asks: 1. The presiding judge’s introduction. Union under the slogan of “Hurray amazed by everything they saw: cleaned with a toothbrush and mint and “And where is the money?” 2. Reading of the judgment passed for ping-pong.” “Look how clean this place is!” that it is appropriate to keep things tidy. “It’s at the bottom of the pot!” says by the court of primary jurisdiction. “Friends,” I said in my opening “It’s the children who keep things in The manager relates further: Jasio with a sweet smile on his face. 3. The motives for the appeal of the speech, “our dream has come true. order here, all by themselves!” “We had a case where a child that came prosecution and the defense. We will have a ping-pong club in our An atmosphere of cordial friendship to us lived in a room occupied by three THE CAUTIOUS ONE 4. Witness testimonies: school.” permeates the life of the sanatorium in families, numbering 24 people in total. A father took his son for a walk through a) Aleksas, glassmaker and a friend “Hurray! Cheers!” Everybody cried its entirety. It is hard to believe that. the village. He stopped in front of a big of the defendant; b) Gamaliel, the out as if they just learned they were the One of the conference guests posed There is so much space and air here, apple tree, heavy with fruit. The father first doctor of the academy in Yavne holders of the winning lottery ticket. a very important question: the plots between the train stop and the looked at the big ripe apples with interest. (Palestine); c) Titus, Emperor of the The choir master barged in like “Don’t the children returning from sanatorium are all vacant, uninhabited, “They have to be picked now,” he Roman Empire; d) Domitian, Emperor, a bombshell. We had completely the sanatorium to their damp, dreadful and there a room of a few meters square, said in the manner of an expert. successor of Titus; e) Paulus, son of forgotten there was a choir practice living quarters feel their situation that with 24 people living there!” “No, daddy, not now,” his son whis- the defendant and Dorion, an Egyptian in the adjoining classroom. much more acutely than before staying In Warsaw, the sanatorium established pered back. “Don’t you see the farmer woman; f) Justus, a Jewish writer and “You professional dumbbells,” the in the sanatorium?” what is known as Kinder – Heym is watching us?” friend of the defendant; g) Phineas, teacher hollered. The sanatorium manager said (Children’s Home) for its former a liberated Greek slave, the defendant’s When we calmed down a little, he that the educators present to the patients. There they spend entire secretary and Paulus’ teacher. explained he was on the edge after children a better, more beautiful and afternoons; they do their homework We received 55 letters from Warsaw and 5. Testimonies of additional practicing a single song with the sixth cleaner world and life the way it can with the help of teachers, receive food 51 from the province, 106 altogether. witnesses. graders for the past two weeks. They be without envy, all in the belief that and have fun. So far, Kinder – Heym has 6. Voices of the public and presenta- were finally on the verge of singing everyone should strive toward such no premises of its own; it is located in tion of a legal and historical analysis. the song well when our shouts spoiled a life and actually build it. the folk school at 36 Krochmalna Street. THE LITTLE REVIEW NEWSROOM 7. Summations of the prosecution everything. … On one occasion, a nurse took The Medem Sanatorium is one of the CAN BE REACHED BY PHONE ON and the defense. We felt sorry and began apologizing a six-year-old boy back to his home, few happy islands on the sea of ​​misery TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS BETWEEN 8. Reading of a letter from to him with such intensity and noise located somewhere on the outskirts of of the Jewish children. 1 P.M. AND 2 P.M., PHONE 11-99-17. Feuchtwanger. that all the teachers came running, the city. The boy was very well-behaved The sanatorium is now proceeding 9. The court ruling. with expressions on their faces so all through the journey, he even longed with the construction of a new hundred- THE LITTLE REVIEW NEWSROOM As I mentioned before, the judgment menacing that our entire Union just for his home, but the moment he stepped bed building. The times are very difficult, WELCOMES VISITORS EVERY the court passed was that of acquittal. hid under the benches. over the threshold and beheld his parents but that building must be erected, against SUNDAY BETWEEN 4 P.M. AND It is also noteworthy that Lion “What happened? What is going and his former life, he sat down on the all odds, through collective effort. 5 P.M. – NO. 7 NOWOLIPKI STREET. Feuchtwanger, notified in advance of on here?” asked the school principal. floor and wept bitterly. AD

His peasant’s blood quickened in him, others went over their carcasses. and he became a true peasant again. Then the real drudgery began. The “THE GOOD EARTH” Swarms of locusts appeared on Lu’s peasants thrashed masses of insects fields. Lu was not schooled, but his with their shovels. Lu worked with son studied in a big city. That son said: greatest zeal. Sweat flooded his face, I have thought hard and long on bucket. As he came in, he saw his thousands like him, human skeletons, “We need to burn part of our his hands started giving out, but he the movie which made the greatest wife sitting on the threshold, with the barely alive. Finally, he reached some crop. We have to! The locusts will paid no attention to that. From time impression on me and came to the small corpse of their baby in hand. All city and here he kept himself alive extinguish the fire with their bodies. to time, he would pick up another conclusion that the best movie I know their other children were lying down, through begging, he would even take We will dig ditches and fill them with man fallen among the locusts. is “The Good Earth.” What are the unable to move.” the place of a horse for a measly water. And whatever survives that, Suddenly, smiles appeared on the reasons? People in the village were dying salary. But Lu did not steal, and when we’ll squash and trample upon. Let peasants’ faces. They felt the blessed Now, this movie familiarized me like flies then. News that Lu (the one of his children stole something, us get to work!” wind, which chases locusts away from with the life of a Chinese peasant. It film’s main character) had food spread he nearly killed the child. When Lu The peasants standing at the door the land. showed an exploited and destitute man. quickly among the handful of the sur- miraculously came into some money ran in all directions. Some hastened to This is how – more or less – the “A Chinese peasant bought some viving peasants. They rushed wildly through his wife, he remembered his set fire to the crops, other began dig- movie presents the life of the earth’s cheap land. He bought as many as to Lu’s hut and found there his wife provider and took his family back ging ditches and the rest filled those most miserable peasant. We see his five fields. He planted them and was stirring the damp soil her husband north. But he changed in a strange with water. Meanwhile, the locusts attachment to the land, his ambition rich. Before long, a drought came. With found. Around her stood her children way: here he desired to possess a liv- fell upon the fields. Their numbers and downright honesty. A Chinese his eyes sunk and his lips cracked, staring greedily at the cooking soil. ing room, noble robes, and trappings were unimaginable. Suffice it to say peasant would not live without work. the peasant inspected his fields. Lu wanted to sell off his sole pro- of prosperity. Lu became a Chinese that if the locusts were to be put into But he committed one shameful Everywhere he saw the effects of the vider, the land. The merchant offered landlord. He despised his wife and bags, counting those bags would take mistake: he hungered after wealth. absence of life-giving water. Suddenly him a mere 12 pieces of silver. Though children. However, he retained the at least 20 years. He sought to move into the realm his eyes lit up. He saw a small patch that could have put food on their table sense of duty toward his mother, Millions of insects fell, only to where there is no more work. The of the mother earth, his sole provider, for many weeks, Lu understood that the land. be replaced by billions of new ones. peasant, however, realized he had that held some moisture. The Chinese when that money ran out, he would When the steward of his fields Finally, in spite of the obstacles the land. And when the good earth was farmer got hold of this last chance for become a pauper. He did not sell his came and showed him a large insect miserable peasants put in their way, threatened by danger, he hurried to survival; he brought bowls and buckets, land. – a locust – which was found in the the locusts extinguished the fire with “her” rescue. and filled them with the moist soil. He Lu and his family traveled south. field, Lu understood that a disaster their own bodies and came across Marek from was only able to drag home a single Along with him on the move were was imminent, and he decided to act. the ditches. Many drowned, but Franciszkańska Street 4 THE LITTLE REVIEW FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1938 IN WARSAW.

fill blank pages with scribbles, and then BRAIN TEASERS HOW TO MAKE YOUR I cast the notebook aside, unwilling READERS’ UPDATES to continue my writing. The following sent in correct solutions to the OWN SKATES Mr. Editor, can you advise me what contest tasks nos. 4, 5 and 6: “ABA” (4, 5, 6), HAMISHA ASAR BISHVAT FAILED VACATION to do to improve myself and willingly “Awadiusz” (4, 5, 6), Artek Bieżuński (4, 5, 6), Ice skating is one of the greatest plea- (letters of second-graders Right at the beginning of winter engage in work? Lila Birenbaum (4, 5, 6), Lila Borensztajn (4, 5, sures of the upcoming winter season. from Ein Harod, 7 years of age). holidays, I went to Otwock, but the NUSIA G. 6), Marysia Borensztejn (age – 4, 5, 6), Zdzisław Not everyone can afford to buy a pair very next morning I fell ill. My father Bornstein (5, 6), Halinka Bornelin (4, 5, 6), Alfred of steel skates, but also, the things we TO OUR FRIENDS IN THE called in a doctor, who told me to stay A CURIOUS KIND and Ryszard Brandszteterowie (4, 5, 6), Perla make ourselves give us most pleasure, DIASPORA in bed for a few days. OF DOCTOR Brum (age – 5, 6), Nina Marim (5, 6), Zygmuś so let me describe for you how at a cost Cukier (4, 5, 6), Naum Dyskin (4, 5, 6), Elza Come to us, because it is beautiful I rested quietly, though beautiful The “Baj” Theater came to our school of few groszy you yourself can made Edelszein (4, 5, 6), Ludwik Eljaszberg (4, 5, 6), here. We plow and plant fields and trips beckoned, and sledding and and gave a beautiful performance for skates, which are particularly good for R. Feldman (name – 4, 5, 6), Franka Firszt (4, 5, forests. It is very good here, in our skating tempted me. us. It was a story about a curious doc- 6), Józio Frydman (4, 5, 6), Renia Frydman (4, skating on softer ice and packed snow. country. In the spring, anemones Unfortunately, this year’s winter tor, who preferred treating animals to 5, 6), Michał Gelblum (4, 5, 6), Miecio Glasman First of all, you have to get hold of bloom and the almond tree blossoms. holidays were a complete failure for me. treating people. He had some animals (4, 5, 6), Josef Goldfarb (5, 6), Rysio Goldszal two pieces of softer wood (linden or In the winter, oranges grow. We have I intend to make up for what I lost now in his house, including a duck, a par- (4, 5, 6), Izrael Goldszpigiel (4, 5, 6), Sewek poplar) because the processing of harder lots of fun during the Hamisha Asar in the course of the summer holidays. rot, a hedgehog and a dog, but he still Goldsztejn (age – 1), Zosia Gothardówna (4, 5, wood calls for more effort and skill. BiShvat. We plant seedlings. It’s HENIEK from Graniczna Street dreamed of a lion or a crocodile coming 6), Celina Grasberg (4, 5, 6), M. Gryn (age – 4, In addition, we need some thick wire, beautiful here, very beautiful. We to him for treatment. 5, 6), Aleksander Grynberg (6), Ida Grynszpan say used in telephone lines, a length go on trips, we pick flowers. Our WHAT GOES AROUND… The doctor had a sister, who was (4, 5, 6), Zdzisław Gurko (4, 5, 6), Symek Hajtler of 50 to 70 cm. garden is full of flowers and greenery. My teacher primarily attends to the not happy with the arrangement. She (4, 5, 6), Motek Hochman (5, 6), “Jalda” (4, 5, 6), From the wood, you need to carve Where you are, snow is probably fall- weak students and the better ones kept saying: Idzia Jedwab (4, 5, 6), Sarenka Judkowska (5, 6), out the skates like shown below. ing; our neighborhood is drowning come later. He talks to them, takes “My scholarly brother, you treat Lusia Kapłanówna (age – 4, 5, 6), Liliana Karolicka Now you need to shoe the skates in vegetation. Come and we will all more time to explain the lessons to animals, who do not pay you for it (age – 5, 6), Srulek Karpman (4, 5, 6), “Ring” (4, with the wire. Use a piece of string to 5, 6), Felicja Kossowska (4, 5, 6), Włodzimierz live together. them, and when any one of them cry and you lose real patients. measure the distance between both ends Kronholc (4, 5, 6), Sz. Krypel (age – 4, 5, 6), JORE over their report card, the teacher says: One time the doctor received of the skates, add a few centimeters Iszaje Kuliński (5), Paweł Lapidus (4, 5, 6), Efryś “A student without an F is like a circus director with a monkey and Lejberg (5, 6), Roma Lewi (4, 5), Maria Lewin more for the bends, and then use the BLESSING FOR THE TREES a soldier without a rifle.” a crocodile. Animals complained about (4, 5, 6), Zygmuś Lichtensztejn (4, 5, 6), Dorotka string to measure the length of wire you Oh, trees, throw your roots into the I liked those words very much. the circus director; he was bad to them Lichtszajnowa (4, 5, 6), Mira Line (age – 4, 5, 6), need. You need to carve out a rut for soil, expand your branches upward! I envied my classmates who received and did not give them food. The doctor Ala Loescher (4, 5, 6), Władzio Lubeinfeld (4, 5, 6), the wire to go through, its depth should And don’t allow yourselves to be cut so much of the teacher’s attention. got angry at the circus man and took Dorota Mozes (4, 5, 6), Alfred Muławski (age – 6), be equivalent to half the thickness of down. Have a good year, oh, beloved I wanted to have the same rights as the animals under his care. Izio Nieczuński (4, 5, 6), Nacia Niemiec (4, 5, 6), the wire. Now sharpen the end bits of trees. they had, at least once. One desire of all the animals was to Olek Ołtuski (4, 5, 6), S. Ostrajch (age – 5, 6), the wire, then bend and hammer them JAEL And here I was in luck. At the end go to Africa, their homeland. Finally, Lola Perlówna (age – 4, 5, 6), Halinka Pinkiert in as shown. of the first half-year grading period, the doctor was able to go to Africa with (4, 5, 6), Daniel Poczebucki (4, 5, 6), R. Poliszuk The only remaining thing to do is to TALKING TREES I got three B’s, but that wasn’t a happy them to treat other ill animals there. (name, age – 4, 5, 6), Fela Rajchenberg (4, 5, 6), fix the skate straps. If you have a drill bit, A cypress and an almond tree grew occasion. Instead of calling me a “sol- I loved the entire play. I liked the Mira Rajchertówna (4, 5, 6), Dosia Rajzman (4, 6), bore two holes in the places indicated around the barracks. And they talked: dier,” The teacher addressed me as doctor the most because he under- Lusia Rajzmanówna (5), Rita from Otwock (last in the first drawing. Pull the straps name, address, age! – 4, 5, 6), Lila Rotblatówna “I am better looking,” said the cypress a slacker. The friends that used to stood that animals suffer more than you will tie over your boots through (age – 4, 6), Sewek Rotenstein (4, 5, 6), Tosia tree. “No, I’m the prettier one,” said like me, now are moving away from people. People can at least tell you Rotsztejn (4, 5, 6), Anna Rzechte (5, 6), Frania those holes. If you do not have a drill the almond tree. the Sun heard their me little by little. Only father, from that something hurts them whereas Rybińska (4, 5, 6), Mieczysław Sapersztejn (age – 4, bit, you can use screws to attach the conversation and said: “Don’t argue, whom I was expecting nothing but animals cannot, and that is why they 5, 6), “Sapiens” (4, 5, 6), “The Vulture beak” (4, straps to the skates. you trees! You both are nice looking a spanking, said: need our love and understanding. 5, 6), Michaś Stern (4, 5, 6), “Check” (4, 5, 6), As you are looking for screws, rum- and pleasant: the almond tree blos- “Just improve on it because should BELA from Niska Street Dudek Szklar (address – 4, 5, 6), “The Scot” (4, mage through your household junk soms beautifully and the cypress tree you get any F’s at the end of the second 5, 6), Tolek Szlik (4, 5, 6), Adam Szpilman (4, 5, to find two suitable buckles; fastened provides shade.” half of the year, things will get bad.” HOW I WAS THROWN 6), Srulek Szpilman (4, 5, 6), Madzia Szpiro (4, straps are better than tied straps, and AHUWIE I cheated myself only once. I wanted INTO THE LIWIEC RIVER 5, 6), Miecio Szurek (4, 5, 6), Stanisław Szwalbe they look better. to become a “soldier” without putting Last year, I was in Urle. Daily I came (age – 4, 5, 6), Halinka Tobołowska (4, 5, 6), “The (i.g.) A DREAM OF A TREE in the work, and I did not realize I was to Liwiec to spend a few hours there. Secret” (4, 5, 6), “The Mind” (4, 5, 6), Andzia There was a tree growing in the grove hurting myself. I won’t play that foolish I bathed, caught fish and played with Wajgenszperg (age – 5), Izio Wajsenblum (age – 5), that dreamt that it would be cut down. game again. the other children. Józef Wolteger (age – 4, 5, 6), M. Zankier (name, FOR THE FIRST TIME And it beseeched the woodcutters: LUTEK from Jeziorna One day it was very cold. Some age – 4, 5, 6), Musio Zinger (4, 5). The following sent in correct solutions to “Do not chop me down!” But they people came to the beach, but no one The following wrote to the Little Review for the the contest tasks nos. 10, 11 and 12: Jankiel wouldn’t listen. I AM NOT A PERSEVERING was bathing in the Liwiec. first time: Ajzensztajn Rachela, Aleksandrowicz Ajzenszmidt (age – 10, 11), “Awadiusz” (10, Ryszard, Birenbaum Hela, Blatt Hania, Bursztyn When it woke up the next morn- PERSON On the other side of the river, there 11), Izaak Bilder (10, 11, 12), Lila Borensztein Heniek, Cwajfus Jerzy, Czarnobroda Mania, Ferster ing, it saw its green, high reaching My name is Niusia G. The editor prob- was a group of boys. They may have (age – 10, 11, 12), Halinka Boruchin (10, 11), Ewa, Finkelstein Ruta, Forma Anka, Frydman branches and birds singing among ably remembers my brother, who wrote been 15-year-olds or so. At that mo- Tobiasz Chludniewicz (address, age – 10, 11, 12), Pola, Goldkorn Zosia, Goldman Adam, Guterman them. an article titled “The radio installer” ment, I noticed that they threw one Natan Dyskin (10, 11), Róża Figa (10, 11), Halinka Niusia, Hamburger Hanka, Jedwab Idzia, Joselewicz CAFIR two years ago. of their group into the water. I was Finkielkraut (10, 11), Renia Frydman (10, 11), Dawid, Kamioner Lutek, Kałużyńska Stefa, Klein When I was younger, I wanted to curious and wanted to approach them Michał Gelblum (10, 11, 12), Miecio Glasman (10, Rachela, Kolberg Jenta, Korentajer Sulamita, A THANKSGIVING write for the Little Review, but all to see who they threw into the water. It 11, 12), Tobiasz Glikowski (age, address – 10, Lastman Dawid, Lewin Anka, Lichtenbaum FOR THE OLIVE TREE I wrote then were sheer stupidities seemed to me that it was a young lady. 11, 12), Józef Goldfarb (10, 11), R.G. (10, 11), Bronka, Lichtensztein Felka, Losca Irena, Łuński You give us tasty olives. We make and put all my articles in the trash, In order to get to the other side Celina Grasberg (10, 11), M. Gryn (10, 11, 12), W., Machlis Leon, Pindek B., Pozner Felicja, good olive oil out of your fruit. We the way you will surely treat this one, of the Liwec, I had to cross a small Ida Grynszpan (10, 11, 12), ldzia Jedwab (10, Próżnak Marysia, Rafałowicz Pola, Rozenberg use this olive oil to fry and cook with. Mr. Editor. Even if I wrote something bridge. Having reached the middle of 11), Felicja Kossowska (10, 11), Włodzimierz Henryk, Rozenblum Dorka, Szymeńczyk Małka, Kronholc (10, 11), Paweł Lapidus (10, 11, 12), A wanderer weary with his journey nice, it never occurred to me to rewrite the bridge, I stopped suddenly as I no- Unger Lea, Wajman Nomi, Warhalt Lili, Wejder Roma Lewi (10, 11), Zygmuś Lichtensztejn (10, sits down and rests in your shade. For it and send a clean copy to the editor. ticed that the boys I was approaching Judyta, Werthajm Hania, Wołyńska Dora. 11), Lucynka Lipszyc (10, 11), Ala Loescher all that, I thank you, dear tree, and I am older now, and I still cannot aligned themselves on the bridge in (10, 12), Władzio Lubelfeld (10, 11, 12), Olek I wish you live for many, many years! overcome my lazy demeanor. I am an odd way. Not suspecting anything Ołtuski (10, 11), Halinka Pinkiert (10, 11), Daniel from Pińsk (last name, address, age – 14), Renia RUT not a persevering person at all. For wrong, I went ahead. I was close to the Poczebucki (age, address – 10), Eliasz Przysuskier Frydman (13, 14, 15), Tobiasz Glikowski (age, example, there are many novels in my other side, right by those boys, when (age, address – 10, 11, 12), Rachela from Józefów address – 13, 14), Josef Goldfarb (13, 14, 15), THE EUCALYPTUS TREE head, all my notebooks are filled with all of a sudden somebody pushed me, Biłgorajski (10, 11), Fela Rajchenberg (10, 11, 12), R.G. (13, 14, 15), Celina Grasberg (13, 14), Ida The eucalyptus tree helps dry the novels, which are not all that bad, by the and I fell off the bridge into the water. Lusia Rajzman (12), Ryszard Robak (10, 11, 12), Grynszpan (13, 14), Jadzia Jedwab (13, 14), marshlands, provides shade to weary way. But that is not enough: I will write The Liwiec is a very shallow and Sewek Rotenstein (10, 11, 12), Frania Rybińska Liliana Karolicka (age – 14), Felicja Kossowska travelers and heals the sick. We also down five chapters, but when I think safe river, that is why children play (address – 10, 11, 12), M. Sapersztejn (name – 10, (13, 14, 15), Paweł Lapidus (13, 14), Zygmuś make cradles and build barracks out that I should write another dozen or in it the same way as on the beach. 11, 12), “Sapiens” (10, 11), Dudek Szklar (10, 11, Lichtensztejn (13, 14, 15), Ala Loescher (13, 15), of the eucalyptus wood. We value so chapters to finish the novel, I put But on its other side, near the bridge, 12), Adam Szpilman (10, 11), Srulek Szpilman Władzio Lubelfeld (13, 14), Izio Nieczuński (13, this tree very highly. my pen away with aversion. there is a place that is quite deep, one (10, 11), Madzia Szpiro (11), Lola Szrajbman (10), 15), Nacia Niemiec (13, 14, 15), Olek Ołtuski (13, JUWAL I often cannot sleep at night and children stay clear of. That’s where “The Secret” (10, 11, 12), Halinka Tobołowska 14), Halinka Pinkiert (13, 14), Sylwa Preczepówna (10, 11, 12), “The Mind” (age – 10, 11), Józef (14), Eliasz Przysuskier (age – 13, 14), Fela think up my novels. When I am bored I was pushed off the bridge. Wolteger (age – 10, 11), Musio Zinger (10, 11). Rajchenberg (13, 14), Sewek Rotenstein (13, HISTORY OF ONE TREE and have nothing to read, I write novels. Fortunately, I grabbed on to a bridge The following sent in correct solutions to the 14, 15), Frania Rybińska (13, 14), Dudek Szklar An angry Arab cut off one tree’s I recently wrote a novel entitled “Bands pillar and miraculously got to the water contest tasks nos. 13, 14 and 15: “Aba” (13, 14), (address, age – 13, 15), Adam Szpilman (13, 14), branches, but the tree did not die. of the Black and the White Land.” I was surface. The next moment my mom ran “Awadiusz” (13, 14, 15), Izaak Bilder (13, 14), Srulek Szpilman (13, 14, 15), Madzia Szpiro (13, It sprung new branches and lives on. about to send that novel to the Little up and took me out of the Liwiec and Halinka Boruchin (13, 14, 15), Tobiasz Chludnicki 14), Miecio Szurek (13, 15), Halinka Tobołowska It is still a beautiful tree, and to sit Review, but no, just forget about it. put me in dry clothes. I had scratches (address, age – 13, 14), “The Secret” (13, 14), (13, 14), “The Mind” (address – 13, 14), Beniek in its shade is a pleasure. I wrote the initial three chapters, all over my legs. Dobrunia from Praga (age –14), Liza Edelszein Wajnsztejn (age – 14, 15), Józef Wolteger (13, URIE and I cannot go on any further. I will “SPARKLE” (13, 14, 15), Ludwik Eliaszberg (13, 14), Ernuś 14), Musio Zinger (13, 14).

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; 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: Marek 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. Jeżowski; substantive editing: Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych; Translation and graphic design available under CC BY-SA 3.0 license