Volume 35, Number 14 · September 29, 1988
A Polish Hero
By Neal Ascherson
The King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczak
by Betty Jean Lifton
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 404 pp., $22.50
King Matt the First
by Janusz Korczak, translated by Richard Lourie, introduction by Bruno Bettelheim
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 332 pp., $15.95
So run the last two pages of Poland's best-loved book for children, King Matt the First, by Janusz Korczak (Henryk Goldszmit). It was first published in 1923. A generation of children, Polish-Catholic or Polish-Jewish, began to sob as they read of the last walk of the child who was King of Children.
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