Call It Sleep (68 page)

8
. See Max Weinreich,
History of the Yiddish Language
(Chicago, 1980); Uriel Weinreich,
Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems
(New York, 1953); Itamar Even-Zohar, “The Nature and Functionalization of the Language of Literature Under Diglossia” [Hebrew],
Hasifrut
2 (1970): 286–302, and “Aspects of the Hebrew-Yiddish Polysystem,” in
Polysystem Theory
(forthcoming); Benjamin and Barbara Harshav,
American Yiddish Poetry
(Berkeley, 1986); Dan Miron,
A Traveler Disguised: A Study in the Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
(New York, 1973).

9
. Max Weinreich, p. 249.

10
. M. M. Bakhtin,
The Dialogic Imagination
(Austin, 1981), p. 292.

11
. Meir Sternberg, “Polylingualism as Reality and Translation as Mimesis,”
Poetics Today 2
(1981): 225–32.

12
. Dorrit Cohn,
Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction
(Princeton, 1978).
    For illuminating readings of
Call It Sleep
see Murray Baumgarten,
City Scriptures: Modern Jewish Writing
(Cambridge, Mass., 1982); Naomi Diamant, “Linguistic Universes in Henry Roth's
Call It Sleep,” Contemporary Literature
27 (1986): 336–55; Wayne Lesser, “A Narrative's Revolutionary Energy: The Example of Henry Roth's
Call It Sleep,” Criticism
23 (1981): 155–76.

13
. Max Weinreich, “Yiddishkayt and Yiddish: On the Impact of Religion on Language in Ashkenazic Jewry,” in
Readings in the Sociology of Language,
ed. Joshua Fishman (The Hague, 1968), p. 410.

14
. Max Weinreich,
History of the Yiddish Language,
p. 252.

15
. See
American Yiddish Poetry,
p. 404.

16
. Sternberg, p. 225.

17
. Henry Roth,
Call It Sleep,
p. 16. All further page references will be cited in the text.

18
. See Hana Wirth-Nesher, “The Modern Jewish Novel and the City: Kafka, Roth, and Oz,”
Modern Fiction Studies
24 (1978): 91–110.

19
. Max Weinreich,
History of the Yiddish Language,
p. 270.

20
. Uriel Weinreich,
Languages in Contact,
p. 76.

21
. Bonnie Lyons,
Henry Roth: The Man and His Work
(New York, 1976), p. 172.

22
. Henry Roth,
Shifting Landscapes
(Philadelphia, 1987), p. 142.

I am grateful to David Roskies and Zephyra Porat for their excellent suggestions during revisions of this essay.

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Roth, Henry.

Call it sleep / Henry Roth ; with a new introduction by Alfred Kazin.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-312-42412-4

EAN 978-0-312-42412-1

I. Title.

PS3535.0787C34  1991

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