by Marilla | Apr 29, 2013 | News, Yiddish
We are thrilled to announce that Wex is about to enlist reader support for a translation of a classic Yiddish novel that he wants to publish free of charge. It will exist only on line and as a cost-free PDF or e-book. “I’m going to try to finance it as an...
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 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 Wex | Sep 20, 2010 | Jewish Week, Yiddish
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,...
by Wex | Sep 13, 2010 | Jewish Week, Yiddish
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...
by Wex | Sep 7, 2010 | FAQs
We like to help people who’ve half-remembered a Yiddish expression they heard in their family. Here’s one example. There is a saying my family and I can’t find and hope you can give us the meaning. I’ll try to get it out….sounds like...
