page_title: Jules Chametzky
hierarchical_section_title: Jules Chametzky
caption_attribution_description: English: The image is a photographic portrait of Jules Chametzky, the article's subject, by the noted photographer and Massachusetts Review editor Jerome Leibling.
context_page_description: Jules Chametzky is an American literary critic, writer, editor, and unionist. His essays in the 1960s and 1970s on the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender to American literary culture anticipated the later schools of New Historicism and Cultural Studies in American letters. Chametzky was a founder and long-time editor of the Massachusetts Review, an editor of Thought and Action, the journal of the National Education Association, as well as the third President of the Massachusetts Society of Professors, the faculty/library union at the University of Massachusetts. He was also a founding member of the Coordinating Committee of Literary Magazines and its first secretary. Chametzky was married for over fifty years to the writer, editor, and educator Anne Halley.
context_section_description: Jules Chametzky (born 1928 in Brooklyn) is an American literary critic, writer, editor, and unionist.  His essays in the 1960s and 1970s on the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender to American literary culture anticipated the later schools of New Historicism and Cultural Studies in American letters. Chametzky was a founder and long-time editor of the Massachusetts Review, an editor of Thought and Action, the journal of the National Education Association, as well as the third President of the Massachusetts Society of Professors, the faculty/library union at the University of Massachusetts.  He was also a founding member of the Coordinating Committee of Literary Magazines (CCLM, now Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) and its first secretary. Chametzky was married for over fifty years to the writer, editor, and educator Anne Halley (1928–2004).
caption: Cover, Massachusetts Review 44.1/2 Photo by Jerome Liebling
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