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Out of Brownsville : encounters with Nobel laureates and other Jewish writers : a cultural memoir / by Jules Chametzky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chametzky, Jules, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chametzky, Jules.
- Jews--United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Jews.
- Jews--United States--Identity.
- American literature--Jewish authors.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this collection of literary portraits, Jules Chametzky shares his recollections of more than forty notable Jewish writers, from Alfred Kazin to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Paley, Saul Bellow, Irving Howe, Cynthia Ozick, Leslie Fiedler, Tillie Olsen, Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, Joseph Brodsky, and Amos Oz--to name a few.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Alfred Kazin
- Norman Podhoretz
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Morty Gunty
- Howard Sackler & Friend
- Grace Paley
- Isaac Rosenfeld
- Saul Bellow
- John Berryman
- William Phillips
- Harold Brodkey and Erica Jong
- Irving Howe
- Cynthia Ozick
- Leslie Fiedler
- Tillie Olsen
- Adrienne Rich, Anne Halley, & Marilyn Hacker
- Allen Ginsberg
- Kadya Molodowsky
- Amos Oz, Shirley Kaufman, & Abba Kovner
- Joseph Brodsky
- Maishe Mirsky
- Paolo Milano
- Edward Dahlberg
- Paul Goodman
- Ruth Whitman
- Translations & Transformations
- Harvey Swados
- Clara and Richard Winston
- Melvin Jules Bukiet et al.
- Julius Lester
- Nat Hentoff and Others
- Helen and Jose Yglesias
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "Originally published by Meredith Winter Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2012."--T.p. verso.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-291-7
- OCLC:
- 872121959
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