"I don't want a niche – I want an empire!" – Michael Wex, Globe and Mail
Copies of Born to Kvetch at the Koffler Centre, Toronto. Photo from the 2008 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards, courtesy of the Koffler Centre of the Arts
Michael Wex is best known for his New York Times best-selling book on the history and development of Yiddish, Born to Kvetch. The follow-up Just Say Nu took up where Kvetch left off - providing vocabulary for those wanting to try out their Yiddish.
Wex has also written fiction: Shlepping the Exile, an inside-portrait of orthodox, post-Holocaust Judaism in a place that it never expected to be, and the novella The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist, a comic strip epic in prose.
How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck), Wex's newest book, is a manual for pursuing happiness while still acting with integrity, honor and compassion.
