by Marilla | Apr 11, 2016 | Interviews, Rhapsody in Schmaltz, Tablet
Michael Wex is not a chef. He’s not a lifelong challah baker, an avid cookbook collector, or even, by his own admission, much of a home cook. But his new book, Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can’t Stop Eating It, might just be the most important Jewish...
by Wex | Apr 7, 2016 | Reviews, Rhapsody in Shmaltz
The ultimate insider-outsider discourse, laden with ancient wisdom, and the no less wise ability to poke fun of it. Jake Marmer has written a fabulous, really insightful review of Rhapsody in Schmaltz in the Chicago Tribune. You can find the review right...
by Marilla | Apr 6, 2016 | Rhapsody in Schmaltz
Rhapsody in Schmaltz got a starred review in the April issue of Library Journal. Wex has written a delightful and informative history of Jewish (“Yiddish”) food from biblical times to the present, describing its evolution and popularization through media...
by Marilla | Mar 16, 2011 | The Frumkiss Family Business
This review of The Frumkiss Family Business by Joel Yanofsky appeared in the latest edition of the Literary Review of Canada. Last December, after the film version of Barney’s Version came out, I noticed that the chatter on my Facebook page about the movie and...
by Marilla | Jan 6, 2011 | The Frumkiss Family Business
Proving once again the value of a single-city tour, Uptown Magazine in Winnipeg has voted The Frumkiss Family Business one of its top novels of the year. At the beginning of December Quentin Mills-Fenn wrote a great review of Frumkiss and has followed up today by...
by Marilla | Dec 12, 2010 | The Frumkiss Family Business
Mike Regenstreif presents a considered and very favourable review of The Frumkiss Family Business in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. Imagine suddenly finding out that a defining aspect of your identity was not what you thought it was all your life – that you weren’t...
