Michael Wex
Michael Wex is a Canadian novelist, playwright, translator, 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 with his wife Marilla and daughter Sabina.
Michael Wex was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada to a family of descendants of Rebbes of Ciechanów and Stryków. He has taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Michigan.Works
- The Frumkiss Family Business. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2010.
- How to Be a Mentsh . Harper, 2009.
- Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion . New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007.
- Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language And Culture in All Its Moods. Publisher: St. Martin's Press.
- Born to Kvetch.
- Shlepping the Exile, 1993,
- The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist. 2007.
- Die Abenteuer des Micah Mushmelon, kindlicher Talmudist
- Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz. 2004.
- The Wishing-Ring by S.Y. Abramovitsh. 2003.
- God in Paris
- Sex in Yiddish
- Judenverwolkung, or Meshiekh's Tsaytn
- I Just Want to Jewify
- Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can't Stop Eating It
