Menachem Kipnis

Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland

Sheila E. Jelen (Herausgeber)

Menachem Kipnis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2026
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
9781978846104 (ISBN)

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Menachem Kipnis: Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland showcases photographs of East European Jews alongside Yiddish folk stories documented by Menachem Kipnis (1878-1942), an ethnomusicologist, performer, and folklore collector who died in the Warsaw Ghetto. Kipnis' photographs were originally published in the American Yiddish press throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The folk tales, published originally in Yiddish as Chelmer Mayses (Chelm Stories), were published in the East European Yiddish press during those same years. This volume, for the first time in single book, brings together these two bodies of Kipnis’s work, suggesting new ways of understanding the image, both literary and visual, of East European Jewish culture between the two World Wars. With an introductory essay, annotation, and an epilogue, Menachem Kipnis provides a glimpse into the aspirations for modernization that characterized Jewish life before the Holocaust, both in Europe and in the United States.

Menachem Kipnis (1879-1942) was born in Ushomir, Ukraine into a family of cantors. Kipnis’s work as an ethnomusicologist, singer, photographer, and folklorist unfolded at the height of Jewish folkloristic activity in Europe between the World Wars. Kipnis died of a stroke in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. Sheila E. Jelen is a professor in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies and Testimonial Montage: A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance. Raphael Finkel is professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File. Finkel is also an activist for the survival of the Yiddish language.

Contents
Introduction by Sheila E. Jelen
The Chelm Stories by Menachem Kipnis
Epilogue: Between Yiddish and English by Sheila E. Jelen
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Notes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.4.2026
Co-Autor	Sheila E. Jelen
Übersetzer	Raphael Finkel
Zusatzinfo	44 color images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	203 x 254 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	9781978846104 / 9781978846104
Zustand	Neuware