Menachem Kipnis

Menachem Kipnis (born in Uzhomyr , Volyn Governorate , Russian Empire in 1878 ; died in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 ) was a singer, critic and photographer.

Menachem Kipnis' father was an educated cantor. From the age of eight, Menachem Kipnis lived with his older brother, who was also a cantor and the father of the writer Levin Kipnis . Menachem Kipnis received a traditional Jewish education and sang with his brother in the choir of the synagogue of Chernobyl . He impressed with his beautiful alto voice .

He was also a collector of Yiddish songs. With his tenor voice, Kipnis was a popular interpreter of Yiddish songs. In 1942 he died of a stroke.

Works

1918: Zekhtsik folks-lider (Sixty folk songs)
1925: Akhtsik folks-lider (Eighty folk songs)
1930: Khelemer mayses (Chelm stories)

Web links

Free song lyrics in Yiddish and sheet music from Menachem Kipnis' Folks Lider Collection

Literature by and about Menachem Kipnis in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Kipnis, Menakhem. YIVO, accessed December 3, 2017 .
^ Exhibition of photographs of Menachem Kipnis (1878–1942) - Exhibition co-organized with YIVO in New York. Jewish Historical Institute, accessed December 3, 2017 .
↑ Menachem Kipnis. WE REMEMBER! SHALOM! זכור! שלום !, accessed on December 3, 2017 .
↑ G. Dynner, F. Guesnet: Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky (= IJS Studies in Judaica ). Brill, 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-29181-2 , pp. 258 ( google.co.uk [accessed December 3, 2017]).
↑ Itzik Gottesman Nakhmen: Defining the Yiddish Nation - The Jewish folklorists of Poland , Wayne State University Press, 2003, p 56
↑ ^a ^b Chaim A. Kaplan, AI Katsh: Scroll of Agony. The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan (= Holocaust Studies. History ). Indiana University Press, 1965, ISBN 978-0-253-21293-1 , pp. 333 ( google.co.uk [accessed December 3, 2017]).
↑ ^a ^b B. Wasserstein: On the Eve. The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War . Simon & Schuster, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4165-9427-7 , pp. 301 ( google.co.uk [accessed December 3, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Kipnis, Menachem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Singer, critic and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Uzhomyr , Volhynia
DATE OF DEATH	1942
Place of death	Warsaw Ghetto

[YIVO-1] Kipnis, Menakhem. YIVO, accessed December 3, 2017 .

[Jewish_Historical_Institute-2] Exhibition of photographs of Menachem Kipnis (1878–1942) - Exhibition co-organized with YIVO in New York. Jewish Historical Institute, accessed December 3, 2017 .

[WE_REMEMBER!_SHALOM!_זכור!_שלום!-3] Menachem Kipnis. WE REMEMBER! SHALOM! זכור! שלום !, accessed on December 3, 2017 .

[Dynner_Guesnet_2015_S._258-4] G. Dynner, F. Guesnet: Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky (= IJS Studies in Judaica ). Brill, 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-29181-2 , pp. 258 ( google.co.uk [accessed December 3, 2017]).

[5] Itzik Gottesman Nakhmen: Defining the Yiddish Nation - The Jewish folklorists of Poland , Wayne State University Press, 2003, p 56

[Kaplan_Katsh_1965_S._333-6] Chaim A. Kaplan, AI Katsh: Scroll of Agony. The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan (= Holocaust Studies. History ). Indiana University Press, 1965, ISBN 978-0-253-21293-1 , pp. 333 ( google.co.uk [accessed December 3, 2017]).

[Wasserstein_2012_S._301-7] B. Wasserstein: On the Eve. The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War . Simon & Schuster, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4165-9427-7 , pp. 301 ( google.co.uk [accessed December 3, 2017]).