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They Called Me Mayer July
Publication Date: January 2007
Publisher(s): Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies
Author(s): Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Series: AJS Perspectives: The Newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies, Spring 2007, pp.12-14.
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Culture and religion (Religion and religious groups)
Social conditions (History)
Keywords: Literature; History; Generational Issues; Culture
Type: Other
Coverage: Poland Poland
Abstract:
The author presents an excerpt from the afterword of "They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust". The book, which the author wrote with her father, Mayer Kirshenblatt, chronicles his pre-war memories as gathered by interviews with the author.