by Marilla | Apr 11, 2016 | Interviews, Rhapsody in Schmaltz, Tablet
Michael Wex is not a chef. He’s not a lifelong challah baker, an avid cookbook collector, or even, by his own admission, much of a home cook. But his new book, Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can’t Stop Eating It, might just be the most important Jewish...
by Marilla | Mar 23, 2016 | Jewish Week, Rhapsody in Shmaltz
With Rhapsody in Schmaltz coming out in a couple of weeks the interviews are coming in thick and fast. Here’s one Wex did for Steve Lipman at The Jewish Week. Over the last decade, author-translator Michael Wex has become the public voice of Yiddish culture —...
by Marilla | Dec 30, 2015 | Articles, Jewish Week
“It may not be good for the American political system, but at least it’s good for Yiddish. A bissel, that is.” The Jewish Week got hold of Wex at Yiddish New York for his opinion on Trump’s recent use of the word “schlonged”. “If Donald trump is...
by Marilla | May 6, 2015 | Articles, Interviews, News, Where's Wex?, Yiddish
Wex gets interviewed by the Australian Jewish News about Yiddish, The Stooges and stand-up comedy. When people think of Moe, Larry and Curly, they rarely think of Yiddish. But should they? In one of my lectures, I’ve focused on the pivotal role of the Three Stooges in...
by Marilla | Apr 23, 2015 | Articles, New York Times
Ben Schott’s piece The Secret Slang of the Diamond District is published in the New York Times today with a little help from Wex. The street has its own vocabulary, honed over generations and still used today. The prevalence of Yiddish reflects the historical...
by Wex | Oct 10, 2013 | Huffington Post
Since Alice Munro was named as the Nobel Prize winner for Literature today it seems like a good time to repost this piece I wrote for the Huffington Post about when she turned down the Giller Prize. Enjoy. “How do you make a writer kvetch?” It’s a...
