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They called me Mayer July : painted memories of a Jewish childhood in Poland before the Holocaust / Mayer Kirshenblatt, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studiesPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press : Judah L. Magnes Museum, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 411 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0520249615
  • 9780520249615
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: They called me Mayer July.; No titleDDC classification:
  • 943.845 23
LOC classification:
  • DS135.P62 O595 2007
Contents:
My town -- My family -- My youth -- My future.
Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

My town -- My family -- My youth -- My future.

"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.

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