Mayer Kirshenblatt
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1916 –
Who is Mayer Kirshenblatt?
Mayer Kirshenblatt was born in Apt / Opatów Poland. He left Poland in 1934 and settled in Toronto, Canada, where he ran a paint and wallpaper store for many years. In 2007, he and his daughter Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett published They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood before the Holocaust. The book won the Canadian Jewish Book Award, J. I. Segal Book Award, and American Association of University Presses award for book design, and was a finalist in three categories for the National Jewish Book Award. An exhibition of his work, which opened at the Magnes Museum in 2007, will travel to The Jewish Museum, Jewish Historical Museum, and Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The book and exhibition are the culmination of a forty-year collaboration between father and daughter. In 1967, Barbara began interviewing Mayer about his childhood. In 1990, at the urging of his wife, daughter, and son-in-law Max Gimblett, Mayer began to paint.
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