Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers

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“No student of American Jewish writing needs to be reminded that Jules Chametzky is one of its pioneers. . . . He now caps a distinguished career as critic, editor, and teacher with this delightful volume of memoirs.” —Joseph C. Landis, editor of Yiddish-Modern Jewish Studies “A raconteur’s timing and wit leaven the author’s perceptive literary intelligence. This combination is so seductive, the stories so entertaining and engrossing that we only gradually come to recognize how gracefully we have been ushered into serious literary history.” —Michael Thelwell, Daily Hampshire Gazette “This page intentionally left blank” Out of Brownsville “This page intentionally left blank” Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers A Cultural Memoir By Jules Chametzky UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS Amherst and Boston Copyright © 2012 by Jules Chametzky All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Originally published by Meredith Winter Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2012. First paperback edition published by University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. Library of Congress Control Number: 2013945199 ISBN 978-1-62534-036-8 Printed and bound by Gasch Printing, LLC. Legendary editor Jules Chametzky’s book is autobiography at its cleanest: one’s life through the eyes of others. His astute, personable dispatches are a map of Jewish intellectual trends in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Ilan Stavans “This page intentionally left blank” ...