They Called Me Mayer July
Subtitle: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press; Judah L. Magnes Museum
Published: September 24, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780520249615
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Biography / Autobiography; Sociology; Poland; Anthropology - General; Eastern Europe - Poland; Ethnic Cultures - General; Europe - General; Jewish - General; Judaism - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General
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.