by Marilla | Sep 7, 2011 | Jewish Week
Last week Wex was asked to comment on New York Times journalist David Brooks’ piece on his African safari vacation, and specifically on his use of the Yiddish word haimish (sic). Although he has no problem with Brooks’ understanding of the word heymish (to...
by Marilla | Aug 19, 2011 | Tablet
It’s a constant source of irritation to Wex that the word chutzpah is often misused in English to mean having balls instead of its more accurate meaning of displaying unbelievable cheek. So he was chuffed to bits when Tablet asked him to comment on the recent...
by Marilla | Jan 3, 2011 | Articles
Wex has done several book tours with the Jewish Book Council and all this week he will be blogging for them. Find out how The Frumkiss Family Business was born and what it’s really like to be a Jewish writer and Yiddish expert. You can read the first entry...
by Marilla | Nov 25, 2010 | New York Times
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,...
by Marilla | Oct 29, 2010 | Interviews, The Forward
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...
by Wex | Sep 30, 2010 | Articles, Reviews
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...
