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Memoirs and Letters

The first critical edition of Memoirs and Letters, an important source for Polish history and the history of education by Izabela Moszczeńska-Rzepecka (1864-1941), who was an independence activist, patriot, pedagogue advocating the ideas of the New Education and supporting the emancipation of women and a pioneer of sexual education. Her life began in a manor house in Kuyavia, where patriotic insurgent traditions were cultivated, she received positivist education at a finishing school in Warsaw and joined the ranks of Warsaw insurgent intelligentsia (and imprisoned for her activity in this field). A social activist in the Second Polish Republic, she died in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. She raised two children on her own: Hanna Pohoska (1895-1953) was a historian of education and an associate professor at Warsaw University, Jan Rzepecki (1899-1983) was a colonel in the Polish Army. The grave of Izabela Moszczeńska at Warsaw Powązki Cemetery is engraved with her life motto: Full of faith in homeland’s resurrection.

Keywords: pedagogy, history, Poland, the turn of the 19th and 20th century, Warsaw, Izabela Moszczeńska-Rzepecka, emancipation of women, Warsaw intelligentsia.

Hanna Pohoska, https://orcid.org/
Przedmowa
10.31338/uw.9788323554370.pp.31-34

Michał Fijałkowski, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3733-0252
Wstęp
10.31338/uw.9788323554370.pp.7-30

Hanna Pohoska, https://orcid.org/
Zamknięcie. Życie i działalność Izy Moszczeńskiej-Rzepeckiej w latach 1914–1941
10.31338/uw.9788323554370.pp.501-512