An edition of They called me Mayer July (2007)
They Called Me Mayer July
Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust
By Mayer Kirshenblatt,Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Publish Date
September 24, 2007
Publisher
University of California Press,Judah L. Magnes Museum
Language
eng
Pages
418
Description:
"Mayer Kirshenblatt, who was born in 1916 and left Poland for Canada in 1934, taught himself to paint at age 73. Since then, he has made it his mission to remember the world of his childhood in living color, "lest future generations know more about how Jews died than how they lived." This volume presents his paintings woven together with a narrative created from interviews that took place over forty years between Mayer and his daughter, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. This collaboration - a unique blend of memoir, oral history, and artistic interpretation - is simultaneously a labor of love, a tribute to an imagination, and a portrait of life in one Jewish hometown."--Jacket.
subjects: Social life and customs, Jews, Biography, History, Kind, Opatów (Pologne), Moeurs et coutumes, Biographies, Histoire, Juifs, Alltag, Juden, Malerei, Jews, poland, Poland, biography, Poland, social life and customs
People: Mayer Kirshenblatt (1916-)
Places: Poland, Opato w (Poland), Opato w