Marta Hirschprung (born in Cracow in 1903, died 1942?) was a journalist, translator, editor of the children’s magazine Okienko na Świat (A Little Window on the World) and author of countless articles for the press. This article is an attempt at finding out the forgotten facts from her life and reconstructing her biography. While analyzing her contributions to the Gazeta Żydowska (The Jewish Newspaper) in 1940–1942, special attention is paid to her editorial work on its children’s supplements Nasza Gazetka/Gazetka dla Dzieci i Młodzieży (Our Little Paper/The Little Paper for Children and the Young People, 1940–1941).

The ‘incriminated (suppressed) text’ and its removal remains the key object on the conceptual map of censorship studies. In this approach to censor ship the analysis focuses on demonstrable facts of official intervention in the media, the documentation of the process as well as the reconstruction of the effects of individual gagging orders for the author, the publisher and the editor in charge. An alternative, historical approach to censorship takes a much broader view of the subject. It looks at the institutions involved, their competences, procedures and aims (ranging from prevention to repression) as well as the tools at their disposal. The latter approach, systemic and comparative in scope, requires ‘digging up’ considerably more information than establishing the fact of a censor’s intervention.

This paper is a contribution to research on the reflection on art in literary criticism and cultural journalism of the interwar period. It discusses the interest in graphic arts of the Silesian born right-wing reviewer and literary critic, Alfred Jesionowski (1902–1945?), which resulted in his popularizing discussions on the works of such artistic personalities of the interwar period as Paweł Steller (wood engraver and watercolourist), Stanisław Brzęczkowski (wood engraver) and Jan Kuglin (typographer).

W artykule przedstawiono wybrane przykłady projektów wzorcowych szkól jedno- i dwuklasowych z okresu międzywojennego zalecanych do realizacji w niepodległej Polsce. Omówione zostały projekty wybitnych polskich architektów i ich główne cechy, takie jak forma architektoniczna, układ funkcjonalny i sposób organizowania przestrzeni wokół szkół zgodnie z ustalonymi przepisami prawnymi.

W artykule przedstawiono czasopismo pt. „Światfilm: tygodnik teatr, kino, plastyka, radiofonia, sport” wydawane w Wilnie w latach 20. XX wieku. Było to pismo o tematyce filmowej, teatralnej i ogólnokul-turalnej. Analiza czasopisma ukazuje tematykę zamieszczonych w nim materiałów, zaangażowanie redaktorów i autorów artykułów, a przede wszystkim cel i rolę wydawania tego typu czasopism. Umieszczone na łamach „Światfilmu” materiały dokumentują rozwój sztuki filmowej i teatralnej na Wileńszczyźnie w badanym okresie.

This article analyzes the editoral and thematic structure of Polish school ephemera on the basis of seventeen single-issue publications of this kind published in Poland’s eastern voivodships in the interwar period. The author traces the origin of the texts and the process of its composition (gathering and selection of materials, editorial revisions, technical issues), examines the themes and tries to assesses the participation of students and teachers as well as the cooperation of the local community in each project. Finally, she reassesses of the role and the objectives of such publications.

This article outlines the rise and development of popular science periodicals in Poland from the 18th century until 1939. Their history begins in 1758 with the publication of Nowe Wiadomości Ekonomiczne i Uczone [Latest Economic and Learned News]. Our corpus includes 128 periodicals representing a great diversity of formats and content.