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Passover dishes

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just in time for Pesach Michael Wex discusses Passover dishes. In this lecture given at the National Yiddish Book Center in 2008 Wex talks about all the different types of kosher dishes and what they did back in the old...

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Old Jewish Man River

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...

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Toronto Reading Series

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 and Catherine Gildiner with After the Falls) talking about what brought them to write their books and how they went about...

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Santa’s message

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...

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Don’t knock me a tea kettle

Here's Wex discussing the great Yiddish expression hak mir nisht ken tshaynik at the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst,...