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(Paperback)
By: Hana Wirth-Nesher
ISBN: 9780691138442
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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. This book traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through dialect and accent, and cross-cultural translations.
