"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!Wex has just been confirmed for the Toronto Jewish Book Fair.
At 8pm on Thursday 29th October he will be appearing at the Lipa Green Centre for Jewish Community Services, 4600 Bathurst Street in Toronto to give a lecture on his new book How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck) which is published next week. There will also be a... 
Michael Wex onstage at Carnegie Hall. Photos with the kind permission of Arnie Goodman.
In June Wex was lucky enough to be invited to perform at Theodore Bikel's 85th birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall.
Needless to say he was thrilled - Theo and Wex have been friends ever since Theo came to a lecture Wex gaveat UCLA, after which they taught together at Klezkanada.
This was the second time Wex appeared... 
We've just added the Autumn dates for Wex's book tour of How to Be a Mentsh care of the Jewish Book Council.
If you're in Florida, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland or Nevada this is good news for you! Wex has added eight dates to his Fall tour and he will be coming to a Jewish Book Fair near you!
Other events are taking place care of our publisher - make sure you visit the events page of the... 
Yes, I've finally convinced Wex to have a blog.
But don't worry - all your old favourites will still be here - they'll just look a bit spankier, that's all.
I will gradually be shifting all the old content over to this new site and the old newsletter will be replaced by updates via our RSS feed and email subscriptions. (And if that all sounds Greek to you, don't worry - just put your email address in the... 