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

About the Author

139 About the Author Jules Chametzky is Professor of English, emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he taught from 1958 until 2004. He was a founder of The Massachusetts Review, of which he is Editor, emeritus, after 27 years as senior co-editor. He was born May 24, 1928 in Brooklyn, and attended Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn College (B.A., 1950) and the University of Minnesota (M.A., 1952; Ph.D., 1958). He has taught at the University of Minnesota and Boston University, and as a Fulbright or guest professor at the Free University of Berlin and six other European universities. Chametzky has published numerous articles and reviews on Jewish American and American literature in popular and academic journals. He was president of the Association of Literary Magazines (ALMA) and then secretary of the Executive Committee of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM). His major publications include From the Ghetto: The Fiction of Abraham Cahan; Our Decentralized Literature: Cultural Mediations in Selected Jewish and Southern Writers; and the Penguin edition of Abraham Cahan’s The Rise of David Levinsky. He co-edited Black and White in American Culture: Ten Years of The Massachusetts Review; and Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology. Chametzky is the father of three sons and was married for 52 years to the late poet Anne Halley. “This page intentionally left blank” “This page intentionally left blank” ...