They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust

by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Mayer Kirshenblatt

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520249615
• ISBN13: 9780520249615
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 411 Pages
• Weight: 3.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.4" x 9.8"