Menachem Kipnis
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Brief Description: 125 black and white photographs ofJewish life in Poland during the 1930's taken in some thirty communities. Subjects include: occupations such as coach drivers, street peddlers and street musicians, and a variety of scenes of life in the streets of Poland's cities and towns. The collection also includes several letters in Yiddish. Localities are: Baranovichi, Berdichev, Biala, Ciechanow, Ciechocinek, Dubno, Falenica, Grodno, Grodzisk, Grojec, Kazimierz Dolny, Krakow, Krynki, Lodz, Lublin, Lukow, Mniszew, Nasielsk, Ostrovitz, Otwock, Rawa Mazowiecka, Rovno, Rozhishche, Ryk, Shwid, Svisloch, Ushitza, Warsaw, Zyrardow.
Held at:
YIVO Online Guide
Record Series Number: RG 1343 /RG 1343 
Created by: Kipnis, Menachem
Volume: 0.0
Acquired: 02/27/1993.
Subject Index
Economic Life
Everyday Life
Folklore and Ethnography
Photographers
Poland
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Papers
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/11/23 ; 1999/04/16 ; Gb, yat
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