Michael Wex
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Template:Short description Michael Wex (born September 12, 1954) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, translator, lecturer, performer, and author of books on language and literature.[1] His specialty is Yiddish and his book Born to Kvetch was a surprise bestseller in 2005.[1] 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.[2]
Works
- The Frumkiss Family Business. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2010. Template:ISBN
- How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck). Harper, 2009. Template:ISBN
- Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do). New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. Template:ISBN
- Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language And Culture in All Its Moods. Publisher: St. Martin's Press (September 1, 2005). Template:ISBN
- Born to Kvetch (Audio CD). Template:ISBN
- Shlepping the Exile, 1993, Template:ISBN
- 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. Template:ISBN
- The Wishing-Ring by S.Y. Abramovitsh (Michael Wex, translator). 2003. Template:ISBN
- 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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- ↑ a b Summer Yiddish Internship 2008: Yiddish Summer.org Template:Webarchive
- ↑ "Michael Wex", an interview by Wordsmith.org, December 5, 2005
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- 1954 births
- Living people
- Jewish Canadian writers
- Canadian people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Canadian male novelists
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- Linguists of Yiddish
- Academic staff of the University of Toronto
- University of Michigan faculty
- Writers from Lethbridge
- University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
- Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Novelists from Alberta