No. 21585 Stanley Chyet
Stanley Chyet’s works include:
Lopez of Newport and Lives and Voices. (1970)
The Lord Has a Taste for Clowning.(2008)
Israeli Poetry. (2009)
He co-authored Historical Essay on the Colony of Surinam-1788 with Jacob Rader Marcus
and co-edited Moses Jacob Ezekiel: Memoirs from the Baths of Diocletian with Joseph Gutmann
The 1940 U.S. Census reported that the Chyet family was living on Spencer Street, Dorhester.
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http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0726/ms0726.html
Stanley Franklin Chyet was born on April 2, 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts to Jacob and Beatrice Chyet. He attended Boston Latin Preparatory School, and then went to Brandeis University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952. His Bachelor’s degree in Hebrew Letters was followed by a Master’s degree, Ordination, and a Ph.D., all accomplished at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. During this time he met and married Geraldine Hyman, a student at the University of Cincinnati. Their marriage, in 1956, was followed by the arrival of two children: Michael, born in 1957, and Susan, born in 1958.
Once he had been ordained, Chyet signed up with the Army Reserve as a Chaplain, in which capacity he served from 1957-1960. His long and productive association with Hebrew Union College as a professor began in 1960. By 1965, he had become Associate Director of the American Jewish Archives. In 1969, he began his tenure as Professor of American Jewish History in Cincinnati. He continued in that role at the Los Angeles campus, beginning in 1976. Two years later, he assumed the Directorship of the Magnin School of Graduate Studies at HUC in Los Angeles.
Stanley Chyet loved being a teacher. He also loved being a rabbi. Over the years, he substituted for his many friends who were members of the Jewish clergy when they were on vacation, or ill. He officiated at the weddings of friends. He oversaw the preparation of their children when they became B’nai Mitzvah. Years later, he was still involved in their lives when they, too, married. On at least one occasion, he acted as “rabbi-in residence” on a cruise ship! He answered the call, glamorous or not, whenever he could. He was an active member of a number of organizations, among them the Central Conference of American Rabbis (executive board, 1972-1974); the Labor Zionist Alliance (president, Cincinnati branch, 1966-1967); the Zionist Academic Council (long-time member of executive committee); the Jewish Publication Society of America (long-time member of the publications committee); and the American Jewish Historical Society (member, Academic Council).
Chyet was perhaps proudest of his achievements as a writer, poet, and translator. He was the author of
two books, Lopez of Newport and Lives and Voices. In addition, he co-authored Historical Essay on the Colony of Surinam-1788 with Jacob Rader Marcus, and co-edited Moses Jacob Ezekiel: Memoirs from the Baths of Diocletian with Joseph Gutmann. His poetry and articles appeared in numerous periodicals. His translation of the poems of Israeli poet Haim Gouri from Hebrew to English was plainly a labor of love, and resulted in the publication of two books: Jericho and Other Poems, and Words in My Lovesick Blood: Poems by Haim Gouri. Finally, it is deserving of mention that Chyet greatly admired the author Ludwig Lewisohn. He collaborated with Roy Lekus, a French film producer, on a film about Lewisohn entitled Write For Your Life.
Stanley Chyet passed away in Los Angeles on October 19, 2002 at the age of 71. The cause of death was cancer.