Runner-Up for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 "[An] invigorating book about the multilingual sensibility which Jews who emigrated to the United States brought to their grappling with English... This is not just a book about the Jewish American experience, but about how and why we all relate ... Read moreto language."
Samantha Ellis, Times Literary Supplement "No book traces the stories of Jewish sound, voice, tone, pun, metaphor, name, prayer, and sacred syllable with such consistency and brilliance."
Choice "Call It English is a deeply informed and provocative attempt to explain the uniqueness of Jewish American multilingualism, and as such, it should be required reading for anyone teaching a course on Jewish American literature."
Steven Fink, American Jewish History "Call It English ... [is an] important book for scholars of both American literatures and American Jewish literature, and ... [is] so especially at this particular point in history... [T]he ever-increasing passage of time that separates us from the events of the Holocaust and the inevitable if not deeply regrettable failures of memory make it all the more imperative that we bear witness to the past."
Contemporary Literature "Her work opens new doors for a reconsideration of the national and linguistic boundaries of American literature, long a literature of immigrants
immigrants who continue to bring their languages and literary traditions to bear on the history of American letters."
Dr. Allison Schachter, Pesach Show Less