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Jules Chametzky: oral history with Jessica Adamites

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Chametzky, Jules Adamites, Jessica

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Interview with Jules Chametzky, important figure in the UMass Amherst Department of English, founder of the Massachusetts Review. Youth in Brooklyn and study in Brooklyn College (1946-1950); run-in with anti-Communist hearings in 1950s. Finished PhD in 1958 and came to UMass after being recruited by Leo Marx and Sidney Kaplan; origins of Massachusetts Review; union activities; contributions to democratizing governance in the English Department; changes on campus in 1960s and 1970s; African and African American students on campus and racism on campus; beginnings of Afro American Studies Department.
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Keywords

  1. Authors
  2. College Teachers
  3. Faculty
  4. History
  5. Interviews
  6. Kaplan, Sidney 1913
  7. Labor Unions
  8. Massachusetts Review
  9. Universities
  10. University Of Massachusetts Amherst
  11. University Of Massachusetts Amherst Department Of English
  12. University Of Massachusetts Press

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