"I don't want a niche – I want an empire!" – Michael Wex, Globe and Mail
We were sent this by Theodore Bikel - our dear, dear friend.
It was just too damned good to keep to ourselves. Mary Tyler Moore producer Stan Daniels does Old Man River as an old Jewish guy. Enjoy! (And if you receive this via email and can't see the YouTube player, just click on the link to bring you to the website and you can look at it here.)
On Tuesday 24th November Michael Wex gave a talk to the Toronto Reading Series about his writing process.
He was the third of three authors (the others being Ian Brown talking about his book The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son
Last year we bought a four-foot tall animatronic Santa Claus.
If you talk into the microphone that comes in the box you can make Santa talk. It was just too tempting to make him an old Jewish man. So here's Santa's message. Just for you.
Here's Wex discussing the great Yiddish expression hak mir nisht ken tshaynik at the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.
On October 24th 2007 The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist had its official launch at Heliconian Hall, Toronto. In this the last of five videos Wex reads from the book, specifically about who Shrage's real father is.
Filmed by TACIT Media.
