{"product_id":"menachem-kipnis","title":"Menachem Kipnis","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","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56414680711512,"sku":"9781978846104","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781978846104_02417109-2fe3-426e-b848-af67efbeb825.jpg?v=1780433118","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/menachem-kipnis","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}