Call It English
Subtitle: The Languages of Jewish American Literature
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780691121529
Subjects: Jewish Studies; Language & Linguistics; Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Jewish; USA; Jewish authors; American - General; American Language and Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / Jewish; History and criticism; American literature; Intellectual life; Jews
First sentence: FOR DECADES, a New York-based radio station whose multilingual broadcasts served the needs of immigrant communities would identify itself in the following words: "This is WEVD, the station that speaks your language."