Mayer and Barbara in Montreal, November 11-12, 2008

The Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (CEREV) and Department of Art History at Concordia University present:
 
Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust, with Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. 

Father, now 92 years old, and daughter will converse informally on stage beneath large projected images of Mayer’s paintings. This family collaboration—a moving blend of memoir, oral history and artistic interpretation—is at once a labor of love, a tribute to a distinctive imagination, and an enduring representation of a lost way of life. They are in Montreal to receive to receive the J.I. Segal Award for their book on Tuesday November 11. 

One of the highlights of our visit to Montreal was the chance to see Mayer's childhood friend Joe Somberg, whom he had not seen for many years.

Photographer: David Ward