Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature

by Hana Wirth-Nesher

Book Overview

Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. In transnational readings of works from the late-nineteenth century to the present by both immigrant and postimmigrant generations, Hana Wirth-Nesher traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691138443
• ISBN13: 9780691138442
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"