Towards the end of September 2006 Michael Wex was asked to spend a week as the guest blogger for Powell's Books.
His daily blogs include stories from his youth and student days, Yiddish idioms, clarifications on points of Jewish law, an explanation of the real reason he didn't become a rabbi and why spitting in the synagogue is no longer considered appropriate behavior.
Matzohs with the Fuehrer - Wex, highly-trained shock-rabbi, reflects on the question "When is a toupee not a toupee?" Can't Keep From Kvetchin' - how to make friends with a best-selling author - please don't send your book manuscripts..... Gimme a Pigfoot - Wex might be an expert on all things Yiddish, but his efforts in shop class were nothing short of dismal A Person of the Book - Wex's top tips on how to stay in further education for as long as humanly possible Windows of the Soul - when fights break out in synagogue between old frum guys, stand well clear
If you have enjoyed Wex's blog and would like to read more, please check out Wex's articles. 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. If you'd like to read extracts from his books, including the New York Times best-seller Born to Kvetch and his two novels The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist and Shlepping the Exile, please click here.
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