Michael Wex
{{Short description|Canadian writer}}
Michael Wex (born September 12, 1954) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, translator, lecturer, performer, and author of books on language and literature.[http://yiddishsummer.org/internship-faculty.html Summer Yiddish Internship 2008: Yiddish Summer.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109113740/http://www.yiddishsummer.org/internship-faculty.html |date=2007-11-09 }} His specialty is Yiddish and his book Born to Kvetch was a surprise bestseller in 2005. Wex lives in Toronto.
Michael Wex was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada to a family of descendants of Rebbes of Ciechanów and Stryków. He has taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Michigan.[http://wordsmith.org/chat/yiddish.html "Michael Wex"], an interview by Wordsmith.org, December 5, 2005
Works
- The Frumkiss Family Business. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-307-39776-8}}
- How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck). Harper, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-061-77111-8}}
- Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do). New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. {{ISBN|0-312-36462-8}}
- Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language And Culture in All Its Moods. Publisher: St. Martin's Press (September 1, 2005). {{ISBN|0-312-30741-1}}
- Born to Kvetch (Audio CD). {{ISBN|0-06-113122-9}}
- Shlepping the Exile, 1993, {{ISBN|0-88962-542-5}}
- The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist. 2007.
- Die Abenteuer des Micah Mushmelon, kindlicher Talmudist (dt. von Heiko Lehmann, Wagenbach 2005)
- Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz. (Michael Wex, translator) 2004. {{ISBN|0-8156-0760-1}}
- The Wishing-Ring by S.Y. Abramovitsh (Michael Wex, translator). 2003. {{ISBN|0-8156-3035-2}}
- God in Paris (performance)
- Sex in Yiddish (performance)
- Judenverwolkung, or Meshiekh's Tsaytn (performance)
- I Just Want to Jewify (The Yiddish Revenge on Wagner) (performance)
- Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can't Stop Eating It
References
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External links
- [http://michaelwex.com/ Michael Wex's website]
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- [http://www.livingtraditions.org/ KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program]
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Category:Jewish Canadian writers
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Category:University of Michigan faculty
Category:Writers from Lethbridge
Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Category:Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century Canadian male writers
Category:21st-century Canadian male writers
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