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Как любить ребенка (Азбука-классика)
«Как любить ребенка» - одна из самых известных книг о воспитании. В основу своей педагогики Януш Корчак положил чудесный сплав любви и уважения к ребенку, которому, как и взрослому, требуется свобода для самовыражения и самостоятельного познания окружающего мира. В этой доброй, искренней книге читатели найдут как ценные практические рекомендации, так и увлекательные рассказы и размышления о проблемах и радостях, связанных с взрослением и самоопределением человека. На протяжении многих десятилетий работа Корчака «Как любить ребенка» служила настольной книгой родителей по всему миру и даже была названа «Библией по воспитанию детей».
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Published July 12, 2022
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About the author
Janusz Korczak
156 books111 followersJanusz Korczak was a Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogue, also known under the pseudonym "Stary Doktor".
He was born Henryk Goldszmit in Warsaw on July 22, 1878. During his youth, he played with children who were poor and lived in bad neighborhoods; his passion for helping disadvantaged youth continued into his adulthood. He studied medicine and also had a promising career in literature. When he gave up his career in literature and medicine, he changed his name to Janusz Korczak, a pseudonym derived from a 19th century novel, Janasz Korczak and the pretty Swordsweeperlady.
In 1912, Korczak established a Jewish orphanage, Dom Sierot, in a building which he designed to advance his progressive educational theories. He envisioned a world in which children structured their own world and became experts in their own matters. Jewish children between the ages of seven and fourteen were allowed to live there while attending Polish public school and government-sponsored Jewish schools, known as "Sabbath" schools. The orphanage opened a summer camp in 1921, which remained in operation until the summer of 1940.
Besides serving as principal of Dom Sierot and another orphanage, Nasz Dom, Korczak was also a doctor and author, worked at a Polish radio station, was a principal of an experimental school, published a children’s newspaper and was a docent at a Polish university. Korczak also served as an expert witness in a district court for minors. He became well-known in Polish societyand received many awards. The rise of anti-Semitism in the 1930's restricted only his activities with Jews.
In 1934 and 1936, Korczak visited Palestine and was influenced by the kibbutz movement. Following his trips, Korczak was convinced that all Jews should move to Palestine.
The Germans occupied Poland in September 1939, and the Warsaw ghetto was established in November 1940. The orphanage was moved inside the ghetto. Korczak received many offers to be smuggled out of the ghetto, but he refused because he did not want to abandon the children. On August 5, 1942, Korczak joined nearly 200 children and orphanage staff members were rounded up for deportation to Treblinka, where they were all put to death.
Source: Janusz Korczak Communication Center and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
He was born Henryk Goldszmit in Warsaw on July 22, 1878. During his youth, he played with children who were poor and lived in bad neighborhoods; his passion for helping disadvantaged youth continued into his adulthood. He studied medicine and also had a promising career in literature. When he gave up his career in literature and medicine, he changed his name to Janusz Korczak, a pseudonym derived from a 19th century novel, Janasz Korczak and the pretty Swordsweeperlady.
In 1912, Korczak established a Jewish orphanage, Dom Sierot, in a building which he designed to advance his progressive educational theories. He envisioned a world in which children structured their own world and became experts in their own matters. Jewish children between the ages of seven and fourteen were allowed to live there while attending Polish public school and government-sponsored Jewish schools, known as "Sabbath" schools. The orphanage opened a summer camp in 1921, which remained in operation until the summer of 1940.
Besides serving as principal of Dom Sierot and another orphanage, Nasz Dom, Korczak was also a doctor and author, worked at a Polish radio station, was a principal of an experimental school, published a children’s newspaper and was a docent at a Polish university. Korczak also served as an expert witness in a district court for minors. He became well-known in Polish societyand received many awards. The rise of anti-Semitism in the 1930's restricted only his activities with Jews.
In 1934 and 1936, Korczak visited Palestine and was influenced by the kibbutz movement. Following his trips, Korczak was convinced that all Jews should move to Palestine.
The Germans occupied Poland in September 1939, and the Warsaw ghetto was established in November 1940. The orphanage was moved inside the ghetto. Korczak received many offers to be smuggled out of the ghetto, but he refused because he did not want to abandon the children. On August 5, 1942, Korczak joined nearly 200 children and orphanage staff members were rounded up for deportation to Treblinka, where they were all put to death.
Source: Janusz Korczak Communication Center and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
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March 20, 2025
I've rarely encountered a work that merges practical wisdom with such profound philosophical depth as Janusz Korczak's "How to Love a Child" (איך לאהוב ילד). The Polish-Jewish pediatrician, educator, and children's author crafts not merely a manual on child-rearing but an impassioned manifesto advocating for children's rights and dignity in an era when they were routinely silenced. Korczak's prose vibrates with lived experience—drawn from his decades running Warsaw orphanages where he implemented his revolutionary child-centered approach. His perspective feels strikingly modern despite being written primarily between 1914-1918, as he challenges readers: "You say children are the future, but when do they live? Not tomorrow, but today."
The text moves gracefully between meticulous observation and soulful reflection, documenting children's behaviors with a scientist's precision while interpreting their inner worlds with a poet's sensitivity. Korczak presents striking case studies drawn from his orphanage: the child who steals bread not from hunger but from fear of tomorrow's uncertainty; the seemingly defiant boy whose rebellion masks his desperate need for affirmation; the quiet girl whose silence contains multitudes. He tackles moments of crisis—a midnight fever, an outbreak of theft, a violent argument—revealing how adults consistently misread children's motivations. "Children are not the people of tomorrow," he writes, "but people today. They have a right to be taken seriously, and to be treated with tenderness and respect." The revolutionary notion that children deserve autonomy permeates every page, exemplified by his orphanage's child court system where peers judge infractions according to their own understanding of justice.
Reading Korczak feels like conversing with someone who has truly seen children—not as incomplete adults or vessels for adult ambition, but as complex beings navigating an incomprehensible world constructed without their consent. The experience is bittersweet, tinged with the knowledge that the author's ultimate expression of his philosophy came when he accompanied his orphans to Treblinka in 1942, refusing offers of personal rescue. This educator who taught children to value human dignity demonstrated it until his final breath.
For contemporary readers grappling with questions of educational philosophy, child development, or simply seeking to understand the small humans in their care, Korczak's century-old insights sparkle with relevance. His words—simultaneously practical and transcendent—remind us that truly loving a child means respecting their personhood while acknowledging the asymmetry of power that inevitably exists between adult and child. It's this delicate balance, this pedagogical tightrope walk between protection and freedom, that Korczak illuminates with unmatched clarity and compassion.
המהדורה שקראתי יצאה ב1963 בהוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד והיא רק בת 160 עמודים.
The text moves gracefully between meticulous observation and soulful reflection, documenting children's behaviors with a scientist's precision while interpreting their inner worlds with a poet's sensitivity. Korczak presents striking case studies drawn from his orphanage: the child who steals bread not from hunger but from fear of tomorrow's uncertainty; the seemingly defiant boy whose rebellion masks his desperate need for affirmation; the quiet girl whose silence contains multitudes. He tackles moments of crisis—a midnight fever, an outbreak of theft, a violent argument—revealing how adults consistently misread children's motivations. "Children are not the people of tomorrow," he writes, "but people today. They have a right to be taken seriously, and to be treated with tenderness and respect." The revolutionary notion that children deserve autonomy permeates every page, exemplified by his orphanage's child court system where peers judge infractions according to their own understanding of justice.
Reading Korczak feels like conversing with someone who has truly seen children—not as incomplete adults or vessels for adult ambition, but as complex beings navigating an incomprehensible world constructed without their consent. The experience is bittersweet, tinged with the knowledge that the author's ultimate expression of his philosophy came when he accompanied his orphans to Treblinka in 1942, refusing offers of personal rescue. This educator who taught children to value human dignity demonstrated it until his final breath.
For contemporary readers grappling with questions of educational philosophy, child development, or simply seeking to understand the small humans in their care, Korczak's century-old insights sparkle with relevance. His words—simultaneously practical and transcendent—remind us that truly loving a child means respecting their personhood while acknowledging the asymmetry of power that inevitably exists between adult and child. It's this delicate balance, this pedagogical tightrope walk between protection and freedom, that Korczak illuminates with unmatched clarity and compassion.
המהדורה שקראתי יצאה ב1963 בהוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד והיא רק בת 160 עמודים.
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