TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirshenblatt,Mayer
AU  - Kirshenblatt-Gimblett,Barbara
TI  - They called me Mayer July: painted memories of a Jewish childhood in Poland before the Holocaust 
T2  - The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
SN  - 0520249615
AV  - DS135.P62 O595 2007
U1  - 943.845 23
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press, Judah L. Magnes Museum
KW  - Kirshenblatt, Mayer,
KW  - Jews
KW  - Poland
KW  - Opatów
KW  - History
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Biography
KW  - Opatów (Poland)
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; My town -- My family -- My youth -- My future
N2  - "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
ER  -