History: archeology
Mon 1 Jun to Sun 4 Oct 2009
2009
June 2009
Monday 1 June 2009
Mon 1 Jun to Sun 4 Oct. 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, 10128. Alex Wittenberg, 212-423-3271. Jewish Museum - [email][events]
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust May 10, 2009 - October 04, 2009 They Called Me Mayer July presents 65 paintings by Mayer Kirshenblatt. Kirshenblatt, who was born in 1916 in Opatow, Poland (Apt in Yiddish) and left for Canada in 1934, taught himself to paint at age 73. The exhibition and companion book are the result of four decades of conversations between the artist and his daughter, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a highly acclaimed scholar of East European Jewish culture.