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Canadian writer
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.
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
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