Menachem Kipnis: Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland by Menachem Kipnis non-media Journalist Matti Friedman’s true-life detective

Journalist Matti Friedman’s true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages went missing

but a dragon called Dreadful has other ideas

gathered from all over the world and from ancient to modern times

he marries

Bergelson’s stories—passionate

Menachem Kipnis: Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland by Menachem Kipnis non-media Journalist Matti Friedman’s true-life detectiveTranslated 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