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How to Be a Mentsh book launch in NYC

How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck) gets its US launch at the Workmen's Circle in New York City next month. On Tuesday 27th October at 6.30pm Wex will be talking about his new book, signing copies, pressing flesh and answering questions at a launch held by the Workmen's Circle. If you're in the New York area - drop by and say hello! (Mentsh gets its Canadian launch in a couple of weeks on 21st September... Read more here

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Biggest mentsh/biggest shmuck competition

Check out these and other fine items with Yiddish flair at our online store by clicking on the image above Win yourself a signed copy of Wex's new book, How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck) - here's how. Simply go to our contact page and send us (in 500 words or less) a story about the biggest mentsh or the biggest shmuck you've ever met. The writer of the best mentsh story and the best shmuck story will... Read more here

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When big shots go all to pot…

The shocking recent slide in stock markets around the world could well leave many a private investor and Wall Street maven on the verge of turning into a knakker on a nun, “a knakker without the n” (but with the initial k). A knakker is a “big shot,” the sort of person who does everything with knak, with enough pizzazz to make sure that no one pays attention to anybody else. And many a market... Read more here

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The Pre-Rosh Hashanah shnor season

Now that the warm weather has finally arrived and Jews who lead traditional lives have embarked on the Three Weeks of mourning that precede Tisha b’Ov, the Ninth of Av, the day when both Temples were destroyed, the pre-Rosh Hashana shnor-season is nearly upon us. Jewish mailboxes will soon be filling up with letters from Jewish organizations of every sort, all of them competing for Jewish charitable... Read more here

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Worldwide shmuck epidemic?

Now it's official. Just about anywhere you turn these days, you're likely to run into a shmuck. According to an article that appeared today on Wireless Flash - FlashNews,  the word shmuck can be translated as a "totally clueless, egotistical douchebag”. In order to combat this epidemic of shmuckishness, this alarming rise in the numbers of people brought up to believe that getting what they want is all... Read more here

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Sarah Hampson interview in the Globe and Mail

Photo by Fernando Morales for the Globe and Mail On the eve of the publication of How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck) Sarah Hampson's interview with Michael Wex appears in the Globe and Mail. "With his new book How to Be a Mentsh (& Not a Shmuck), Michael Wex continues to define the Yiddish language and what it means to be Jewish." It's a nice interview which really captures Wex in conversation. Read... Read more here

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New Toronto book tour date added!

Wex will be appearing at the new McNally Robinson store in Toronto on Monday 26th October 2009. Knopf Canada are doing a great job getting him into stores across Canada, organizing a book launch in conjunction with Pages book store and setting up radio and newspaper interviews. If you live in Toronto and can get to the recently opened McNally Robinson book store at Don Mills and Lawrence for 7pm on Monday... Read more here