"His books have not just been good for the Jews; they have been great." – Joel Yanofsky, Literary Review of Canada
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!At Klezkamp last December Wex was interviewed by Pauline Katz as part of the Wexler Oral History Project for the Yiddish Book Center.
In this short clip he tells the story of how Esther Shumiatcher, a Yiddish poet from Calgary, funded her career through the sale of cowboy... 
Back in February Wex was interviewed by Doris Epstein on Mensch Life about his new novel The Frumkiss Family Business.
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Michael Wex appears on Mensch Life from Marilla Wex on... 
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... 
As I mentioned on Friday, Wex was interviewed by Bernie Bellan, editor of The Jewish Post and News, during his recent visit to the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. Here are some excerpts from that interview:
Is writing novels of this type something that you’re going to be continuing to do or is this a one-shot affair?
“I hope not. I started out writing fiction. My first book – which nobody ... 
How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck) comes out in paperback across North America next Tuesday.
To mark this, Wex was interviewed by Dan Levin at Shalom Life about what it means to be a mentsh.
"A mentsh is the kind of person you would call a stand up person,” he says. “Somebody who can be counted on to do the right thing even when no one else is looking. Even when doing the right thing might not be... 