by Wex | Nov 9, 2015 | Videos, Where's Wex?, Yiddish
One week today, one day after the panel on Eating Jewish in Canada at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, I’ll be going uptown in New York City to speak on “Pigs, Poultry and Pampers: Yiddish and Religious Tradition” at Columbia University. The lecture is...
by Wex | Apr 21, 2013 | Videos, Yiddish
If we don’t devote an awful lot more time to the creation and support of a culture of our own, this is the one in which we’re going to be defined. I don’t know anything about the state rep in this video, but I’ll bet that if he apologizes...
by Wex | Jul 30, 2011 | Videos
Yom Kippur will never sound like this.
by Marilla | Jun 3, 2011 | Interviews, Videos, Yiddish
At Klezkamp last December Wex was interviewed by Pauline Katz as part of the Wexler Oral History Project for the Yiddish Book Center. In this short clip he tells the story of how Esther Shumiatcher, a Yiddish poet from Calgary, funded her career through the sale of...
by Marilla | May 31, 2011 | Public Speaking, Where's Wex?
Last month Wex was in New York to take part in a panel discussion about the nature of Jewish humour. The Art of the Kvetch: Jewish Humor as Secularism was presented by the Jewish Studies department at Eugene Lang College, part of The New School for Liberal Arts. The...
by Marilla | Mar 17, 2011 | Interviews, Videos, Where's Wex?
Back in February Wex was interviewed by Doris Epstein on Mensch Life about his new novel The Frumkiss Family Business. If you are reading this blog post in your email – please click on the link to see the video. Michael Wex appears on Mensch Life from Marilla...
