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Kirshenblatt, Mayer, 1916-2009


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    • Kirshenblatt, Mayer, 1916-
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    • Birth Date

        1916-09-04
    • Death Date

        2009-11-20
    • Birth Place

        Opatów (Poland)
    • Associated Language

        English
    • Occupation

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    • Kirshenblatt, Mayer, 1916-
  • Sources

    • found: Kirshenblatt, Mayer. They called me Mayer July, 2007:CIP t.p. (Mayer Kirshenblatt) data sheet (b. 1916)
    • found: Global Newsstream (via library subscription), viewed July 10, 2019:"Mayer Kirshenblatt." Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. The Globe and Mail; Toronto, Ont. 01 Feb 2010: L.6 (Devoted husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, wood grainer, toy maker, adventurer, artist. Born Sept. 4, 1916, in Apt (Opatow), Poland. Died Nov. 20, 2009, in Toronto after a short illness, aged 93. Mayer Kirshenblatt was known as Mayer July, the hotheaded boy from Apt. His children called him Mayer Wildfire ... Mayer's father, Avner, left for Canada in 1928 for economic reasons. Mayer stayed in Poland with his mother, Rivka, and his three brothers ... In 1934, Mayer finally arrived in Canada with his family and went to work in a sweatshop. After falling asleep at the sewing machine - he had stayed out late the night before - and running his finger under the needle, he turned to house painting. In the late 1940s, he opened his own wallpaper and paint store ... At 73, he began to paint everything he could recall about growing up in Apt ... At 91, he published a book of his paintings and stories entitled They Called Me Mayer July , and at 92, he had a solo exhibition of his paintings at The Jewish Museum in New York ...)
    • found: Wikipedia, viewed July 13, 2019:"Mayer Kirshenblatt" (Mayer Kirshenblatt (1916--2009) was a Canadian Jewish painter and author ... Kirshenblatt was born in Apt (Yiddish)/Opatów (Polish) 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 ... An exhibition of his work, which opened at the Magnes Museum in 2007 ... 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.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_Kirshenblatt
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    • 2006-10-30: new
    • 2019-07-15: revised
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