| Editor |
Marta Budkowska. |
| Curators |
Teresa Śmiechowska, Krysia Fisher. |
| Imprint |
Warsaw, Poland, 2014. 135 pp. (incl. 74 pp. illus.), illustrations: 109 b&w, 29 × 21 cm. Polish and English. |
| ISBN |
9788361850625 |
| Location |
Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (ZIH) (20 January–20 June 2014) |
| Description |
Photographs of Polish Jews taken in the inter-war period by the famous singer, writer and music connoisseur Menachem Kipnis. Like Salomon An-sky before him, Kipnis traveled to a myriad of towns and shtetls, using his skills as an amateur but artistic photographer to document a way of life, and in fact a people, on the verge of its disappearance/destruction. Many of the photographs were taken as part of Kipnis’ journalistic work for the Forward. Five essays on Kipnis, his work, and the history of Polish-Jewish photography (Adam Mazur). Captioned photographs. Circa 100 items. |
| main keywords |
KIPNIS, MENACHEMPHOTOGRAPHSPOLAND |
| minor keywords |
Jewish Press |