# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Menachem Kipnis: Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 29 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: Menachem 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 Haynt, 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 Forverts (Forward), the most popular Yiddish daily newspaper in the United States.

Menachem Kipnis, edited by Sheila E. Jelen and translated by Raphael Finkel, brings 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.

Join YIVO for a discussion with Jelen and Finkel about this book, moderated by Natan M. Meir.

Buy the book > https://yivo-institute.myshopify.com/products/menachem-kipnis-yiddish-folklore-and-photographs-from-interwar-poland
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- **Event Categories**: photography
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://yivo.org/Menachem-Kipnis?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=new+york%2C+new+york-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: New York, New York
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- **full address**: Online event, 15 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011-6301, United States, New York, New York

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- **organizer**: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (https://allevents.in/org/yivo-institute-for-jewish-research/787221)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 29 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm (+00:00)
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