Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature

by Hana Wirth-Nesher

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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"

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