MICHAEL WEX

'Michael Wex' (born 1954 in Lethbridge, Alberta) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, lecturer, performer, and author of books on language and literature. His specialty is Yiddish and his book ''Born to Kvetch'' was a surprise bestseller in 2005. Wex lives in Toronto.

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Works

★ ''Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language And Culture in All Its Moods''. Publisher: St. Martin's Press (September 1, 2005). ISBN 0-312-30741-1

★ ''Born to Kvetch'' (Audio CD). ISBN 0-06113-122-9

★ ''Shlepping the Exile'', 1993, ISBN 0-88962-542-5

★ ''The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist''. 2007.

★ ''Die Abenteuer des Micah Mushmelon, kindlicher Talmudist'' (dt. von Heiko Lehmann, Wagenbach 2005)

★ ''Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz''. (Michael Wex, translator) 2004. ISBN 0-81560-760-1

★ ''The Wishing-Ring'' by S.Y. Abramovitsh (Michael Wex, translator). 2003. ISBN 0-81563-035-2

★ ''God in Paris'' (performance)

★ ''Sex in Yiddish'' (performance)

★ ''Judenverwolkung, or Meshiekh's Tsaytn'' (performance)

★ ''I Just Want to Jewify (The Yiddish Revenge on Wagner)'' (performance)

External links

★ Michael Wex's website

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★ KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program