"His books have not just been good for the Jews; they have been great." – Joel Yanofsky, Literary Review of Canada
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Facebook fan Mark Surks was watching new hit tv show "Blue Bloods" starring Tom Selleck and Mark Wahlberg when he noticed a familiar book cover in one scene.
As a New York subway train pulls into a station you can clearly see a passenger engrossed in Wex's New York Times bestseller.
Mark paused his TIVO and snapped this... Read more here
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... Read more here
ISAAC B. SINGER
A Life
By Florence Noiville
Translated by Catherine Temerson
208 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $23.00.
Dismissed for years as the less-talented kid brother of Yiddish novelist I. J. Singer, whose sales and renown were second only to those of Sholem Asch, Isaac Bashevis Singer gradually emerged from obscurity and journalistic hackwork to become the Dybbuk of modern Yiddish literature,... Read more here
Michael Wex reads from his new novel The Frumkiss Family Business. In this third of four extracts we meet Allan Milner, ethnomusicologist, Yankee Gallstone fan and Eloykim Faktor's self-appointed biographer.
Thanks to the Ashkenaz Festival for hosting the book's launch.
Michael Wex reads from The Frumkiss Family Business. Part 3 - Allan Milner from Marilla Wex on... Read more here
Michael Wex reads from his new novel The Frumkiss Family Business. In this second of four extracts we meet the Frumkiss children - Vanessa and the twins, Rachel and Randall.
Thanks to the Ashkenaz Festival for hosting the book's launch.
Michael Wex reads from The Frumkiss Family Business. Part 2 - the Frumkiss kids from Marilla Wex on... Read more here
It must be this year’s yontoyvim, because it sure isn’t my fault. First I lose my position as gabbai for giving hagbeh to a trombenik on Rosh Hashana and now I’m stuck in England, watching rain filter through the roof of one of my in-law’s sukkes while being told, quietly but often, that the proper spelling of the Yiddish word for “rag” is shmatter and that I can leave if I don’t... Read more here
Heiko Lehmann by Stefanie Rumpler (www.stefanie-rumpler.de)
Dem Pogromtchik’s Viglid (The Pogromist's Lullaby) is the song that put Elyokim Faktor on the map as a writer in The Frumkiss Family Business. It has now been recorded by our dear friend Heiko Lehmann and his band The Hazi Bros.:
Sanne Möricke (guest): accordion
Hardy Reich: mandolin
Ben Lehmann: lead-guitar
Heiko Lehmann: voice, organ,... Read more here
