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(POST)JEWISH...SHTETL APT TROUGH THE EYES OF MAJER KIRSENBLATT
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The catalouge catalogue for temporary exhibition
The "(post)JEWISH…" exhibition is inspired by the paintings by Mayer Kirshenblatt, a Jew born in Opatów in 1916, from where he emigrated to Canada in 1934. In the 1990s, encouraged by his daughter Barbara, Mayer began to paint what he remembered from his childhood. Thanks to his phenomenal memory, he recreated the non-existent world of Opatów Jews in great detail. His paintings testify to a close relationship with the place where he grew up.
Mayer Kirshenblatt is the exhibition’s main protagonist and our guide. His paintings allow us to discover the world of a Jewish boy from a pre-war shtetl, but also to face the difficult history of the entire community. The seemingly joyful paintings are not free from criticism of the social relations and economic reality in which the painter grew up. They also provoke questions about what happened to the "post-Jewish" world.
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