Janusz Korczak

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Wisdom from a Master
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Loving Every Child: Wisdom for Parents

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Born in Poland in 1878, educator, physician, and legendary child advocate Janusz Korczak believed that simply understanding children is the key to being able to take care of them. It’s a basic premise too often overlooked.

This collection of one hundred quotations and passages from Korczak’s writings provides valuable advice on how to take care of, respect, and love every child.

In an inviting gift-book format, this is a heartfelt and helpful reminder of who we were as children and who we might become as parents.

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Wisdom from a Master.......2007-05-27

The author, a physician, survived Nazi Germany and had love in his heart for all children. His wisdom and insights will make you glad to be a human being, and his humor and wry commentaries will delight you.

Big gifts in small packages! Extraordinary parental advice........2007-05-20

What children really think of us:
Adults are not very clever. They don't even know how to take advantage of the freedom they have. They're so lucky, they can buy anything they like, they're allowed to do anything they want but despite all this they are always angry about something and any little thing is liable to make them shout. -From the book.

This little book will teach you some things about children and how to be a parent! Great book for new parents, but also for parents at any stage. For example, there's a section on adolescence. Really good insight and used in a child's point of view.

I picked this up and thumbed thru it and knew I had to get a closer look at this! Who was this man 'Janusz Korczak' and why had I never heard of him before? How did he know this stuff about kids and what they think and feel and want and need?

The introduction tells you a little bit about Korczak, and in the very back of the book, there is a 'who was this man' section. Very interesting. Makes me want to find more of his writings. The book is full of words of wisdom about children, growing and learning, and what they see from us.

Great little book for yourself or to give as a gift. I cannot think of anyone who would not benefit from reading this little treasure! You know someone who you admire as a parent? Great!-& give 'em this too!

Practical Parenting.......2007-05-12

Dr Korzcak writes from the perspective of the child. His writing is
profound yet simple and easy to understand. His teaching reminds me
of the innocence of children. As an adult I forget what it was like
to be a child but Dr Korzcak reminds me of that fragile age. When I
am reminded of that fragile age I empathize and become on the same level as the child, thus more patient, compassionate and understanding, and hopefully a kinder and wiser parent.

The best book on parenting. Period........2007-05-07

Without cant, without presumption, without institutional or ideological nonsense that prevents adults even from seeing children, this book is a treasure. Give it to every expectant parent, and you will give them an invaluable gift to the child they will raise.

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The world in the eyes of children
I did not like this book at all.
The hidden wisdom behind the adventures of "King Matt the First"
Aboslutely GREAT
My 9 year old daughter loved this book!

King Matt the First
Janusz Korczak
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Janusz Korczak was a Polish physician and educator who wrote over twenty books--his fiction was in his time as well known as Peter Pan, and his nonfiction works bore passionate messages of child advocacy. During World War II, the Jewish orphanage he directed was relocated to the Warsaw ghetto. Although Korczak's celebrity afforded him many chances to escape, he refused to abandon the children. He was killed at Treblinka along with the children.

King Matt the First, one of Korczak's most beloved tales, is the story of a boy who becomes king and sets out to reform his kingdom. He decrees that all children are to be given a piece of chocolate at the end of each day. He visits faraway lands and befriends cannibal kings. Whenever his ministers tell him something's impossible, he puts them in jail. He disguises himself as a soldier and becomes a hero. But, as in real life, fantasy is tempered by reality:Matt's fellow kings become jealous of his success--and in the end, Matt falls, although it's clear that he was the greatest king there ever was.

Now this rediscovered classic is available again, and with a vibrant new cover by award-winning artist Brian Selznick. This timeless tale shows that only through the honesty and spontaneity of children can grown-ups begin to imagine and to create a better world.

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The world in the eyes of children.......2006-11-26

This book is a great adventure! Korczak succeeds again to describe our world in the eyes of a child; the games of power, envy, the lack of sensibility, the contempt to important things, and, most important, the beauty of life.

A child king, with no friends and no mentors in whom he can fully trust, Matt has to learn all the ways of life in the hard way. He learns, for example, that if you give too much, people (and even children!) will want more and more; everyone needs limits. He also understands that experience cannot be learned in the castle, it has to be lived outside the walls; you cannot rule an army if you have never seen the battlefields. He learns that friendship is a two-way road of trust and love; if you give you will receive. And he learns that you cannot solve all the problems of the world at once, even in the most efficient scheduled day; the body needs rest and peace of mind.

King Matt is a wonderful teacher to a healthy and ethical life, told in a simple language and amusing stories. I warmly recommend this book for children, parents, and educators.

I did not like this book at all........2006-08-06

I just did not like this book at all. Children should not be having parliments. What foolishness this all was. All it does is prove the point that children cannot and should not rule. They are imature! The ending was bad too. I hate books with bad endings. Don't waste your money like I did.

The hidden wisdom behind the adventures of "King Matt the First" .......2005-11-10

If a wise man wanted to share his wisdom with children, he would write "King Matt the First".
I have read "King Matt" 5 times over the last 45 years. I am excited about this new translation and I am looking forward to reading it again! I'd only wish that the second volume "King Matt on a Deserted Island", was available, too.
This is a deep book; underneath the exciting adventures of the little king, it offers a deeply penetrating, child's eye view of our world: Monarchy versus democracy, the upper v. lower class, differences between cultures and countries, the cunningness and hypocrisy of both domestic and international politics, the bureaucracy, racial relations, relations between children and adults, children's rights, boys v. girls, both the value and the absurdities of traditions and customs and just about every other aspect of life.

The second volume, "Matt on a Deserted Island", is unique among children's books. As the little king isolated on a deserted island, spends time alone, reading, writing, thinking, and growing wiser. This volume too is beautiful and full of love and surprising adventures. Unlike most "deep" books for adults, "King Matt" is remains a thriller even as it writes about deep introspection and contemplation of the meaning of life and death, love, friendship, togetherness and aloneness.

At the end, after many spellbinding adventures, Matt returns to his own country, where he establishes democracy.

To me the great value of this book is that it does not offer any answers. It does not promote any belief systems, religion, or values. Instead it opens up an existential inquiry and encourages the readers to think and find their own answers! This approach is characteristic of Jaunsz Korczak's deep respect for the intelligence of his young readers. It is a rare approach in the world where most writers try to stuff the minds of their readers with ready-made answers.

I recommend this book to every intelligent human being from any country, culture and religious background.

Veet Vivarto

Aboslutely GREAT.......2005-09-07

Anyone can love this book, it's exciting, sophisticated, and is overall fantastic. This book should be lined up as a classic, and should be at the top of childrens literature with books such as 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Holes', 'Number The Stars', and many more. It's that good.

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A boy's father dies, leaving him an orphan. But the boys father was king of the land, so the boy became a king. Better known as King Matt the First. He still hardly knows how to read, so he fits that all into his schedule. Humorous rules and actions are put into play, making the scene more interesting. He goes on adventures, life threatening, suicidal, and very intimidating ones. Read the book, and you'll expierience the legend of King Matt the First.

This is truely a gem, something you should pass on. I recommend this.

Check my 'Battlezone' review.

My 9 year old daughter loved this book!.......2005-08-31

I read this book as a child and wanted my daughter to read it. I was so happy to see her fall in love with King Matt the First.

I also love Janusz Korczak. I hope that more people read this book and learn more about this wonderful man.

When I Am Little Again and "The Child's Right to Respect"

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Back into paradise?

When I Am Little Again and "The Child's Right to Respect"
Korczak Janusz , and Janusz Korczak
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These two works belong to that group of books written by one of this century's fiercest and most devoted child advocates. In the first, Korczak uses fiction to reveal the joys and sorrows of a child, a ten-year-old, juxtaposing them against the feelings of an adult as they both react to two days of adventure spent together. Two prominent themes in his writing are the exploration of the place of children in an adult world and the examination of the treatment and regard children are accorded in that world. In his second book, Korczak spells out his "Magna Charta Libertatis" in defense of the child's right to respect, right to be him or herself, and, most importantly, right to respect for the strenuous effort expended in the process of "growing up."

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Back into paradise?.......2006-11-22

Well, not really. Though we sometimes wish to return to childhood and have all its privileges, we forget about the difficulties children have to confront in their day-to-day life. And they are as stressing to children as our problems are to us.

Korczak is a man who understood and loved children till his death (for more information about his life, read my review on Ghetto Diary). In this book he alerts adults to children's lack of power when confronting the world. How to deal with day-to-day fears, novelties, anxieties, and oppressing teachers?

The book reminds me of a famous quote by Pablo Picasso: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." It is our responsibility to let children grow up in a healthy creative environment, and this can be done only by respecting and understanding children's feelings. This is what this book teaches us.

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Love for the Children
The indispensable first-hand account of Korczak's last days.

Ghetto Diary
Janusz Korczak
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) is one of the legendary figures to emerge from the Holocaust. A successful pediatrician and well-known author in his native Warsaw, he gave up a brilliant medical career to devote himself to the care of orphans. Like so many other Jews, Korczak was sent into the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation of Poland. He immediately set up an orphanage for more than two hundred children. Many of his admirers, Jewish and gentile, offered to rescue him from the ghetto, but Korczak refused to leave his small charges. When the Nazis ordered the children to board a train that was to carry them to the Treblinka death camp, Korczak went with them, despite the Nazis' offer of special treatment. His selfless behavior in caring for these children's lives and deaths has made him beloved throughout the world; he has been honored by UNESCO and commemorated on postage stamps in both Poland and Israel. Korczak's grimly inspiring ghetto diary is now available in paperback for the first time, accompanied by a new introduction by Betty Jean Lifton, the author of the biography of Korczak.

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Love for the Children.......2006-11-22

I am a great admirer of Janusz Korczak not because of his wonderful books, but because he was firm to his beliefs until the end. He had principles and he was not ready to give up, and he paid with his life for it.

Korczak was the director of a big orphanage in Warsaw and he was very well know throughout the world for his writings in education. As the Holocaust started and life got very hard on the ghetto, Korczak worked even harder to keep on with cultural activities and day-to-day life. He was offered to escape to US, as most famous Jewish, but he believed that his children were his life and that he would rather die with them than live in a world that exterminates children cold-bloodedly. BUT, as William Blake puts it: "He who respects the Infant's faith triumph's over Hell & Death."

This book is very interesting; it provides many of the memories that Korczak wrote in the difficult days of the Second World War. It shows how desperating reality was, and how Korczak gave his soul into his fight to keep his children safe and healthy; a sad historical document with pictures of this noble man and the orphanage that made him so proud.

I have his whole collection; unfortunately for English speakers, I have found around 15 books in Hebrew while in English I found just 5. I warmly recommend this book, together with two other books that are found at Amazon: 'King Matt the First' and 'When I am little again' (see my reviews about them).

The indispensable first-hand account of Korczak's last days........1998-08-05

Janusz Korczak was a radical educator and early advocate of the rights of children. He was a Polish Jew (Korczak was a gentile pseudonym for Henryk Goldschmidt) and pediatrician whose work was well-known in Europe before WWII. Though little translated in English, his exceptionally original and poetic style and ideas puts him in the same league as Pestalozzi, Dewey and Montessori. In prewar Warsaw he organized two outstanding institutions: orphanages which were run as self-governing children's republics. But Korczak is legendary not for his life of intense work and ideas, but for his death. When The Warsaw Ghetto was liquidated, he prepared his 200 children to defy death in a unique way. Eye-witness accounts testify to the shattering spectacle of 200 cheerful, orderly children marching in foursomes through the hell of the Ghetto singing. They entered the trains singing, and they died at Treblinka. Every teacher and Korczak himself died with them. Korczak was twice of! fered by the Nazis to survive, once at the trains, once in Treblinka itself -- to be sent to Germany and educate German youth. But he refused. The Ghetto Diary is the only English translation of Korczak's own account of the last year in the Ghetto. It is invaluable. Those of us interested in children, in education and in Remembrance, should put this book into Samizdat, copying it and sharing it. It is the duty of the publisher to keep such a document available. This edition has a superb introduction by a former student of Korczak's. It is written as a novella, but perhaps comes as close to capturing the state of Korczak's mind in those days as anything could. It is quite surrealistic -- as is Korczak's own work. It combines in tribute to Korczak, Korczak's own unique synthesis of imagination, dream and the harshest, most unsparingly observed reality.

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Ghetto Diary
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Das Kind lieben. Ein Lesebuch.
Janusz Korczak , Erich Dauzenroth , and Adolf. Hampel
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Wie liebt man ein Kind. Das Kind in der Familie.

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Wie liebt man ein Kind. Das Kind in der Familie.
Janusz Korczak , and Friedhelm. Beiner
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Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak
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