Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature

Illustrations ix Preface xi Chapter 1: Accent Marks: Writing and Pronouncing Jewish America 1 Pronouncing America, Writing Jewish: Abraham Cahan, Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, Bernard Malamud Chapter 2: like to shpeak plain, shee? Dot'sh a kin' a man I am! 32 Speech, Dialect, and Realism: Abraham Cahan Chapter 3: learned at least to think in English without an accent 52 Linguistic Passing: Mary Antin Chapter 4: Christ it's a Kid!--Chad Godya. 76 Jewish Writing and Modernism: Henry Roth Chapter 5: Here I am!--Hineni 100 Partial and Partisan Translations: Saul Bellow Chapter 6: Aloud she uttered it.-- --Hashem 127 Pronouncing the Sacred: Cynthia Ozick Chapter 7: Sounding Letters 149 And a river went out of Eden--Philip Roth, Aryeh Lev Stollman Magnified and Sanctified--The Kaddish as First and Last Words Notes 177 Works Cited 203 Index 215