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They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust by Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (review)

They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust... book reviews They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust. by mayer kirshenblatt and barbara kirshenblatt-gimblett. (berkeley: university of california press, 2007. pp. i + 411, 363 paintings, 15 pencil drawings, 2 pen-and-ink drawings, 1 lithograph, afterword, maps, notes, acknowledgments, list of illustrations, index.) Suzanne macAulay University of Colorado, Colorado Springs in her "Daughter's Afterword" to her father's book of images and stories, barbara kirshenblatt-gimblett quotes from toni morrison's nobel lecture: "Think of our lives and tell us your particularized world. . . . narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created" (p. 379). Self-creation through narration is an enduring and important area of interest in folklore, but folklore scholars do not address the rich genre of pictorial narrative nearly as often. because of this and for a number of other compelling reasons, mayer kirshenblatt's book of pictorial narratives accompanied by his writing and barbara kirshenblatt-gimblett's commentary is a truly valuable contribution to visual studies and narrative scholarship in folklore. They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust is the "meeting place" where father and daughter's shared http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American Folklore American Folklore Society

They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust by Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (review)

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book reviews They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust. by mayer kirshenblatt and barbara kirshenblatt-gimblett. (berkeley: university of california press, 2007. pp. i + 411, 363 paintings, 15 pencil drawings, 2 pen-and-ink drawings, 1 lithograph, afterword, maps, notes, acknowledgments, list of illustrations, index.) Suzanne macAulay University of Colorado, Colorado Springs in her "Daughter's Afterword" to her father's book of images and stories, barbara kirshenblatt-gimblett quotes from toni morrison's nobel lecture: "Think of our lives and tell us your particularized world. . . . narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created" (p. 379). Self-creation through narration is an enduring and important area of interest in folklore, but folklore scholars do not address the rich genre of pictorial narrative nearly as often. because of this and for a number of other compelling reasons, mayer kirshenblatt's book of pictorial narratives accompanied by his writing and barbara kirshenblatt-gimblett's commentary is a truly valuable contribution to visual studies and narrative scholarship in folklore. They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust is the "meeting place" where father and daughter's shared

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Journal of American Folklore – American Folklore Society

Published: May 12, 2013

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