Hana Wirth-Nesher is the Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair of the Study of the Jewish Experience in the United States and Professor of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature and City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel (Cambridge University Press, 1996). She is also the editor of New Essays on Call It Sleep (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and, with Michael Kramer, The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2003).