Mały Przegląd - The Little Review a tool in the researching of Korczaks life and impact and spread of his pedagogy in prewar Poland

Results from the 8th year of Maly Przeglad show that in the city Bedzin existed Literary Club of this newspaper. 

Lusia from Czestochowa wrote regularly in Maly Przeglad.

List of "non-delivered letters" with many Polish cities mentioned. Also, Paris and Budapest are mentioned.

During the twenties and thirties, there existed in Polish a Jewish intelligentsia newspaper called Nasz Przegląd (Our Review). In 1926, Korczak, who was at the time already the director of the Jewish Orphanage in Warsaw, created Mały Przegląd/The Little Review as a free insert to Nasz Przegląd/Our Review. The Mały Przegląd was reminiscent of any given newspaper, with one significant exception: it was entirely written by and for children. The main office of Mały Przegląd was in the same building at 7 Nowolipki street in Warszawa as Nasz Przegląd and it was printed at the same place.

Mały Przegląd (Little Review) appeared weekly on Fridays.
There were several groups of Reporters and Correspondents and Contributors all over Poland that were writing for/to Mały Przegląd. Mały Przegląd was sent by mail to hundreds of places in Poland and also abroad. In the very first announcement of the Mały Przegląd Korczak wrote: We’ll have reporters from various departments. Specialists: football, cinema, trips, jokes and pranks, charades and riddles Everyone who writes to us more often, will receive the title of CORRESPONDENT. And if their news is interesting, after six months or a year, they’ll be a CONTRIBUTOR. After that, they can become a PERMANENT CONTRIBUTOR. All letters will be graded. If someone wants to get an A, they have to write an interesting letter, without any errors and write it cleanly and legibly. Letters should be written in ink so that the editors don’t ruin their eyes. To become a correspondent, you’ll need 10 or 20 fives, I haven’t decided yet. I don’t actually know how any of it will work yet. I’m still putting it together in my head to make it the best possible. If I was writing for grown-ups, I would have to pretend that I know. And I don’t like to pretend, so I don’t want to write for grown-ups. I’ve also said I can be wicked. If I see that something isn’t going well, that everyone just wants to read and nobody wants to write, I’ll get impatient and stop writing. If you don’t want to help, fine. How can one person know what’s happening in every city, on every street, in every backyard, in all schools, and what everyone wants to know? To start, I’m opening a permanent section called: “I WANT TO KNOW” You can write into the section using postcards. The address is The Little Review Newsroom Warsaw 7 Nowolipki.



Estimates of its circulation ranged from 20,000 to 50,000. The newspaper had also a significant non-Jewish readership. Nasz Przegląd staunchly claimed independence from political parties, carrying the label 'Independent Organ' in its byline, however, it had like its little brother Mały Przegląd and Korczak himself Zionist leanings.

Nasz Przegląd and Mały Przegląd
Between 1926 and 1930 Nasz Przegląd had a supplement for children,  Mały Przegląd. It was edited by Janusz Korczak and appeared weekly on Fridays. Mały Przegląd had its editorial office also at 7 Nowolipki str.

10 years of Mały Przegląd is mentioned with photos in Nasz Przegląd Ilustrowany in January 1937.