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New in New jacket. Book. 4to. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Grey linen binding, 411 pp. Illustrated throughout in color my Mayer Kirschenblatt. Personal, mirthful, and engagingly candid, this extraordinary work is a remarkable record of Jewish life in a Polish town before World War II-a unique blend of memoir, oral history, and artistic interpretation. Mayer Kirshenblatt, who was born in Apt in 1916 and emigrated to Canada in 1934, finally taught himself to paint at age 73. Since then he has made it his mission to remember the world of his childhood in living color, "lest future generations know more about how Jews died than how they lived." This volume presents his lively paintings together with a delightful narrative created from interviews that took place over 40 years between Mayer and his daughter, together drawing readers into a lost but not yet forgotten world. Here we meet the pregnant hunchback, who stood under the wedding canopy just hours before giving birth; the khayder teacher caught in bed with the drummer's wife; the cobbler's son, who dressed in white pajamas all his life to fool the angel of death; the corpse that was shaved; and the couple who held a "black wedding" in the cemetery during a cholera epidemic. This moving collaboration is at once a labor of love, a tribute to a distinctive imagination, and a brilliant portrait of life in one Jewish home town. New in new dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.
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New in New jacket. Book. 4to. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Grey linen binding, 411 pp. Illustrated throughout in color my Mayer Kirschenblatt. Personal, mirthful, and engagingly candid, this extraordinary work is a remarkable record of Jewish life in a Polish town before World War II-a unique blend of memoir, oral history, and artistic interpretation. Mayer Kirshenblatt, who was born in Apt in 1916 and emigrated to Canada in 1934, finally taught himself to paint at age 73. Since then he has made it his mission to remember the world of his childhood in living color, "lest future generations know more about how Jews died than how they lived." This volume presents his lively paintings together with a delightful narrative created from interviews that took place over 40 years between Mayer and his daughter, together drawing readers into a lost but not yet forgotten world. Here we meet the pregnant hunchback, who stood under the wedding canopy just hours before giving birth; the khayder teacher caught in bed with the drummer's wife; the cobbler's son, who dressed in white pajamas all his life to fool the angel of death; the corpse that was shaved; and the couple who held a "black wedding" in the cemetery during a cholera epidemic. This moving collaboration is at once a labor of love, a tribute to a distinctive imagination, and a brilliant portrait of life in one Jewish home town. New in new dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.
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New. 0520249615. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English. 424 pp.; 223 illus. (207 in color. )--with a bonus offer--
