CREECA Lecture Series

What we talk about when we talk about Janusz Korczak, a renowned Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, and writer, is a familiar set of terms: kindness, justice, and the courageous sacrifice for the children in his orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto. Why, then, has the Polish Jewish writer Henryk Grynberg argued that the notion of Korczak’s self-sacrifice constitutes “an insult” to Korczak? Join us for this lecture by UW-Madison professor Halina Filipowicz to discuss this question and more.