"His books have not just been good for the Jews; they have been great." – Joel Yanofsky, Literary Review of Canada
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All three Wexes enjoy nothing better than spending Christmas in a kosher hotel in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York immersing themselves in Yiddish culture.
And now the New York Times has taken an interest.
In the feature article "No Need to Kvetch, Bubala, Yiddish... 
Recently Wex was interviewed by Emily Landau for the Arty Semite blog in The Forward. These are the results.
Michael Wex is best known for his acerbic, authoritative books on Yiddish language and culture, but in this fall’s The Frumkiss Family Business he has turned his attention to fiction. The sprawling novel is a farcical family saga, following three generations of a Jewish clan in Toronto’s... 
ISAAC B. SINGER
A Life
By Florence Noiville
Translated by Catherine Temerson
208 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $23.00.
Dismissed for years as the less-talented kid brother of Yiddish novelist I. J. Singer, whose sales and renown were second only to those of Sholem Asch, Isaac Bashevis Singer gradually emerged from obscurity and journalistic hackwork to become the Dybbuk of modern Yiddish literature,... 
It must be this year’s yontoyvim, because it sure isn’t my fault. First I lose my position as gabbai for giving hagbeh to a trombenik on Rosh Hashana and now I’m stuck in England, watching rain filter through the roof of one of my in-law’s sukkes while being told, quietly but often, that the proper spelling of the Yiddish word for “rag” is shmatter and that I can leave if I don’t... 
I might be wrong, but I think that Rosh Hashana has made me a hero.
I’m gabbai––a synagogue valet––at an orthodox shul in Toronto where I’m in charge of kibbudim, the distribution of such honors as opening the ark, being called to the Torah, and so on.
On the second day of Rosh Hashanah this year, a candidate in the forthcoming provincial elections burst into shul with a police escort instead... 