"His books have not just been good for the Jews; they have been great." – Joel Yanofsky, Literary Review of Canada
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At Klezkamp last December Wex was interviewed by Pauline Katz as part of the Wexler Oral History Project for the Yiddish Book Center.
In this short clip he tells the story of how Esther Shumiatcher, a Yiddish poet from Calgary, funded her career through the sale of cowboy... 
Last month Wex was in New York to take part in a panel discussion about the nature of Jewish humour.
The Art of the Kvetch: Jewish Humor as Secularism was presented by the Jewish Studies department at Eugene Lang College, part of The New School for Liberal Arts. The other participants were Noah Isenberg, author of Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism and editor and translator... 
Back in February Wex was interviewed by Doris Epstein on Mensch Life about his new novel The Frumkiss Family Business.
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Michael Wex appears on Mensch Life from Marilla Wex on... 
Michael Wex reads from his new novel The Frumkiss Family Business. In this final of four extracts we hear how Elyokim Faktor's funeral is besieged by Yankee Gallstone fans and almost hijacked by Allan Milner at the graveside...
Thanks to the Ashkenaz Festival for hosting the book's launch.
Michael Wex reads from The Frumkiss Family Business. Part 4 - Faktor's funeral from Marilla Wex on... 