This category contains all of the reviews of Michael Wex’s work
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 food book published this year. That’s […]
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 here.
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 culture and the process of Americanization. This ambitious historical, sociological and religious analysis describes the importance […]
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 the Mordecai Richler novel it was based on had taken […]
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 including the book as one of his favourite novels […]
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 really who or what you thought you were. That’s what happens […]
I don’t know what it is about Winnipeg, but they sure do love The Frumkiss Family Business. Not that I’m complaining, you understand – we’re thrilled! Uptown, Winnipeg’s online resource for the arts, entertainment and news, has produced a carefully considered, well-written and (all-importantly) overwhelmingly positive review of the book. It was written by Quentin […]
Israel’s is a classy Judaica outfit with two stores in Toronto – one just up the road from us on Eglinton and one in Thornhill. They have always been supportive of Michael’s work and we were delighted when good old Google alerts picked up this review of The Frumkiss Family Business. “If you haven’t already […]
We picked up this review in a Google alert. Increasingly these days book blogs and review websites are playing a bigger part in influencing readers to pick up a book and read it. When we started this website five years ago it felt a bit, well, naff to include any nods other than those from […]
We are delighted to see that Frumkiss is being recommended by a complete stranger on the CBC’s Canada Reads section of their website. The CBC invites members of its virtual book club to provide reviews and recommendations for fellow visitors to the books section of their website. It’s one thing to find kind words on […]