"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!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... 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
Michael Wex reads from his new novel The Frumkiss Family Business.
In this first of four extracts we meet the Frumkiss children's grandfather Elyokim Faktor - Yiddish author and the voice of dodo puppet star Yankee Gallstone.
Thanks to the Ashkenaz Festival for hosting the book's launch.
The Frumkiss Family Business Part 1 - Elyokim Faktor from Marilla Wex on Vimeo.
The Frumkiss Family Business Part 1 -... Read more here
I might be wrong, but I think that Rosh Hashana has made me a hero.
I’m gabbai––a synagogue valet––at an orthodox shul in Toronto where I’m in charge of kibbudim, the distribution of such honors as opening the ark, being called to the Torah, and so on.
On the second day of Rosh Hashanah this year, a candidate in the forthcoming provincial elections burst into shul with a police escort instead... Read more here
We are thrilled to announce that The Frumkiss Family Business went straight onto the bestseller list the week it was published.
BookNet Canada's list from the Quill & Quire lists Frumkiss as #13 on the extended bestseller list for the two weeks up to 29th August 2010.
This happy news coincides with Michael's birthday today.
Thanks to everyone who's been buying the book and posting their reviews on... Read more here
This is the fifth of five guest blog posts I wrote for Powell's Books.
Michael Wex at Markham St. shul in Toronto
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins tonight, and for me — possibly the only person in the world who looks at the High Holidays this way — it's time for window wars, pitched verbal battles over whether the windows in the synagogue I described in the first Powell's blog should be kept... Read more here
