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Out of Brownsville : encounters with Nobel laureates and other Jewish writers : a cultural memoir / by Jules Chametzky.

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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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