They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust
Created by Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Signed and Dated by both authors on title page at an event in NYC.
First edition, 2007. First printing with full number line.
2007, University of California Press in conjunction with the Judah L Magnes Museum
Illustrated throughout in color by Mayer Kirschenblatt. This extraordinary work is a remarkable record of Jewish life in a Poland before World War II.
Mayer Kirschenblatt (Canadian, 1916 - 2009), born in Poland, published this book in 2007, with his daughter Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. The book won the Canadian Jewish Book Award, J. I. Segal Book Award, and American Association of University Presses (AAUP) award for book design, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. An exhibition of his work, opened at the Magnes Museum in 2007, and travelled to The Jewish Museum (NYC), Jewish Historical Museum (Amsterdam), and Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw). It was a result of 40-year collaboration between father and daughter, from 1967, when Barbara began interviewing Mayer, and 1990, when Mayer began to paint, with the culmination by this book and exhibition.

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