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 Marilla | Oct 12, 2010 | Interviews
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...
by Marilla | Sep 2, 2010 | Interviews
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,”...
by Marilla | Aug 29, 2010 | Interviews
As I mentioned on Thursday, Wex was recently interviewed by Zoomer Magazine. Athena McKenzie-Parkin asks Michael five questions about his new novel The Frumkiss Family Business including where the original idea for the book came from, whether the main character Faktor...
by Marilla | Jul 21, 2010 | Interviews
Random House, as part of their marketing for The Frumkiss Family Business, asked Wex twenty questions. These are the results. 1. How would you summarize your book in one sentence? A comic look at what it means to be a Jew–or anything else–today. 2. How...
by Marilla | Jun 16, 2010 | Interviews, Videos, Yiddish
Here’s an interview Wex did following the publication of How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck). In it he talks to Rebecca Brighton about how not to be a shmuck and how Yiddish language informs Jewish culture.
