Michael Wex's Lectures and Readings
Michael Wex’s lectures and readings are continually in demand owing to a combination of his extraordinary breadth of knowledge, unique style and renowned delivery. This is the man whose classes consistently draw the highest enrolment at Klezkamp,the yearly klezmer- and Yiddish-fest that has done so much to bring Yiddish back to the centre of Jewish culture.
You can have him for a day, a night, a mini-course or scholar-in-residence weekend. You can have him in your living room for a private performance for you and your friends. Wex’s lectures add even more life and detail to the topics covered in Born to Kvetch, and can be expanded to include almost any aspect of Yiddish or Yiddish culture. Each chapter of Born to Kvetch was developed from lectures on the topics mentioned in the chapter titles, and all thirteen of these lectures are currently available. Other titles include, but are not limited to: • Yiddish - Why Bother? • Don’t Knock Me A Teapot: Strange Yiddish Expressions and How They Got That Way • Daytsh aftselakis: How Yiddish Stopped Being German • Yinglish - Dunt Esk • Spit Three Times and Call Me in the Morning: Folk Medicine and Superstitions Want to experience Wex in action? Click here to hear radio interviews with Terry Gross and Michael Feldman, Wex's spots in Yiddish on the Forward radio show and to see Wex interviewed by Al Roker for the Today Show. Click here to read the New York Times blog entry for the panel discussion Wex took part in about the future of Yiddish at the Museum of the City of New York. Wex’s schedule fills up quickly. Write now for further information. Return from Lectures and Readings to The Yiddish World of Michael Wex home page.
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