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Menachem Kipnis : Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jelen, Sheila E.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Menachem Kipnis (1878-1942) was one of the early 20th-century's greatest Jewish East European ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and photographers.He had a weekly column in the Warsaw Yiddish newspaper Haynt , retelling humorous old folk stories about the fictional Polish town of Chelm, populated exclusively by fools.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on the Text
- Introduction: Post-European Images and Post-Shtetl Stories / Sheila E. Jelen
- Chelm Stories / Menachem Kipnis
- Epilogue: Between Yiddish and English / Sheila E. Jelen
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Glossary
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-4611-8
- 9781978846111
- OCLC:
- 1583698221
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