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"...La collaboration complice entre père et fille, entre un manuel autodidacte et une intellectuelle de réputation mondiale, entre un homme qui a vécu ce qu’il dit et une femme qui relate ce qu’il a vécu: They Called Me Mayer July s’impose avec originalité parmi les mémoires littéraires et visuels, marque un jalon dans l’histoire et la culture juive polonaise d’avant-guerre et dans les récits autobiographiques à deux voix et aux supports multiples..." Mémoires peintes d’une jeunesse juive en Pologne by Brigitte Sion, in hayom: le journal du judaïsme d’aujourd’hui 26 (hiver 2007), p. 27. Read entire review.
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They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust by Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. University of California Press, 2007.
Exhibitions: The Jewish Museum (New York), May 10-October 1, 2009 | Jewish Historical Museum (Amsterdam), fall 2009.
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February 16, 2008
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- About this book
- Authors: interview
- Cellphone tour of exhibition and book
- Contacts / Book orders
- Daughter's Afterword
- Events
- Excerpt: Boy with a Herring
- Exhibitions
- For book clubs: Discussion guide
- For teachers: Resources
- Interview a loved one of your own
- Press kit
- Reviews
- Toy theater
- Video
- Words of thanks
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