"...extensive, engaging historical and artistic contribution to Jewish culture and Polish history, as well as the ethnography of memory and the art of narrative"

Barbara Rylko-Bauer reviews They Called Me Mayer July in Anthropological Quarterly 8:2 (2008):505-509.

"...Through his recollections and stories, illustrated with over 200 paintings and drawings, full of remarkable details of daily communal life, Mayer Kirshenblatt offers us a unique window onto a world that no longer exists. And it is this latter fact that also makes this book an important contribution to our under standing of the Holocaust and the degree to which it succeeded in erasing a life-way, a culture, a history, a community..." Read whole review.