by Wex | Jan 3, 2012 | The Forward
Here’s a link to Jon Kalish’s audio report on the memorial service for Adrienne Cooper that was held on January 1st in New York. It’s a nice combination of excerpts from the official program of song and eulogy with less formal interviews with a few...
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 | Jan 21, 2010 | The Forward
At least once a month, someone, usually a business acquaintance who doesn’t know much about my private life, will ask what my 14-year-old daughter is up to at her Hebrew day school, and then go on to let me know in no uncertain terms that I am a traitor to every...
