by Wex | Nov 11, 2016 | News
ALL IS NOT LOST: WIN A FREE BOOK, COURTESY OF DONALD TRUMP I hate playing cards and have never been to a horserace in my life, but now that a one-time casino owner has become the most powerful person on earth, I’m ready to get in on the action by sponsoring the...
by Wex | Nov 11, 2016 | News
Nothing too fancy here, but check out my review of Esther Schor’s Bridge of Words in the New York Times Book Review. Am I the first person ever to describe Esperanto as “Yiddish for goyim?”...
by Wex | Jun 18, 2015 | Deli Man, News
If you’re in Toronto, now’s your chance to see Erik Anjou’s film, Deli Man, at the Bloor Cinema. Zane Caplansky will be there Friday, Saturday and Sunday purveying deli and explaining anything that you might not understand. If you look closely, you...
by Marilla | May 6, 2015 | Articles, Interviews, News, Where's Wex?, Yiddish
Wex gets interviewed by the Australian Jewish News about Yiddish, The Stooges and stand-up comedy. When people think of Moe, Larry and Curly, they rarely think of Yiddish. But should they? In one of my lectures, I’ve focused on the pivotal role of the Three Stooges in...
by Wex | Sep 28, 2014 | News
If you’re in Oslo at Sukkos-time– and whoever isn’t, as the Talmud says, wishes that they were –drop by the Jewish Museum on Wednesday, October 8, at 6 p.m, when the Bente Kahan Foundation is sponsoring a lecture that I’ll be...
by Wex | Apr 9, 2014 | News
With Passover fast approaching, I thought that now is probably the right time to quote Chamfort, the great French aphorist, who unwittingly pointed out what might well be the greatest social cost of keeping kosher. W.S. Merwin translates him better than I could: M. de...
