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They Called Me Mayer July - Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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They Called Me Mayer July - Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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Intimate, humorous, and refreshingly candid, this extraordinary
work is a remarkable record - in both words and images - of Jewish
life in a Polish town before World War II as seen through the eyes
of an inquisitive boy. 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 lively
paintings woven together with a marvelous narrative created from
interviews that took place over forty years between Mayer and his
daughter, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Together, father and
daughter draw readers into a lost world - we roam the streets and
courtyards of the town of Apt, witness details of daily life, and
meet those who lived and worked there: the pregnant hunchback, who
stood under the wedding canopy just hours before giving birth; the
khayder teacher caught in bed with the drummer's wife; the
cobbler's son, who was dressed in white pajamas all his life to
fool the angel of death; the corpse that was shaved; and the couple
who held a 'black wedding' in the cemetery during a cholera
epidemic. This moving collaboration - a unique blend of memoir,
oral history, and artistic interpretation - is at once a labor of
love, a tribute to a distinctive imagination, and a brilliant
portrait of life in one Jewish home town.
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