Menachem Kipnis: Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland by Menachem Kipnis Discount Throughout the book Anna Miransky

Throughout the book Anna Miransky examines her complicated relationship with her father through the lenses of language barriers and generational trauma

the Yiddish plays translated and collected here wrestle with issues that continue to concern us today: changing gender roles

75" square wooden blocks

They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply

with more subtlety and power

Menachem Kipnis: Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland by Menachem Kipnis Discount Throughout the book Anna MiranskyTranslated by Raphael Finkel Menachem Kipnis (18781942) was one of the early twentieth centurys 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