{"product_id":"menachem-kipnis-yiddish-folklore-and-photographs-from-interwar-poland-9781978846104","title":"Menachem Kipnis: Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland","description":"\u003cp\u003eMenachem Kipnis (1878-1942) was one of the early twentieth-century's greatest Jewish eastern European ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and photographers. He had a weekly column in the Warsaw Yiddish newspaper \u003ci\u003eHaynt\u003c\/i\u003e, retelling humorous old folk stories about the fictional Polish town of Chelm, populated exclusively by fools. At the same time, his photographs of Jewish life in eastern Europe regularly appeared in the \u003ci\u003eForverts\u003c\/i\u003e (Forward), the most popular Yiddish daily newspaper in the United States. Now, for the first time, Kipnis's stories and photographs are published together in a single book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMenachem Kipnis \u003c\/i\u003ebrings these photographs and stories into dialogue with one another, bridging the Jewish communities in Poland and in America during the interwar period. This dialogue, between image and text, between European metropolis and American metropolis, captures a key historical moment when American Jews sought to imagine the lives of their coreligionists in the \"Old Country\" and eastern European urban Jews sought to distinguish themselves from their Jewish compatriots who were still living in the shtetl\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Including an introductory essay, annotations, and an epilogue by Sheila E. Jelen, \u003ci\u003eMenachem Kipnis \u003c\/i\u003esuggests new ways of understanding both visual and literary depictions of eastern European Jewish culture between the two world wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMENACHEM KIPNIS\u003c\/b\u003e (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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHEILA E. JELEN\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRAPHAEL FINKEL\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52175523315986,"sku":"9781978846104","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2a097f92-f215-4c02-98a5-ff43c3b059a8.jpg?v=1775559111","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/menachem-kipnis-yiddish-folklore-and-photographs-from-interwar-poland-9781978846104","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}