Physical Description
xv, 224 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Accent marks: writing and pronouncing Jewish America. Pronouncing America, writing Jewish / Abraham Cahan, Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, Barnard Malamud
"I like to shpeak plain, shee? Dot'sh a kin' a man I am!". Speech, dialect, and realism / Abraham Cahan
"I learned at least to think in English without an accent". Linguistic passing / Mary Antin
"Christ, it'a kid!"
Chad Godya. Jewish writing and modernism / Henry Roth
"Here I am!"
Hineni. Partial and partisan translations / Saul Bellow
"Aloud she uttered it"
Hashem. Pronouncing the sacred / Cynthia Ozick
Sounding letters. "And a river went out of Eden"
Philip Roth, Aryeh, Lev Stollman. "Magnified and sanctified"
the Kaddish as first and last words.
ISBN
0691121524
9780691121529 (acid-free paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index.
Accent marks: writing and pronouncing Jewish America. Pronouncing America, writing Jewish / Abraham Cahan, Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, Barnard Malamud -- "I like to shpeak plain, shee? Dot'sh a kin' a man I am!". Speech, dialect, and realism / Abraham Cahan -- "I learned at least to think in English without an accent". Linguistic passing / Mary Antin -- "Christ, it'a kid!"--Chad Godya. Jewish writing and modernism / Henry Roth -- "Here I am!"--Hineni. Partial and partisan translations / Saul Bellow -- "Aloud she uttered it"--Hashem. Pronouncing the sacred / Cynthia Ozick -- Sounding letters. "And a river went out of Eden"--Philip Roth, Aryeh, Lev Stollman. "Magnified and sanctified"--the Kaddish as first and last words.
