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Famed Yiddish comic-scholar Michael Wex coming to Club Helsinki July 13
5.22.06
Famed Yiddish comic-scholar to perform at Club Helsinki in July
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) -- Michael Wex, the renowned comic-scholar of the Yiddish language and author of the recent bestseller, Born to Kvetch, hailed in a front-page review by the New York Times as "wise, witty and altogether wonderful," brings his one-man show to Club Helsinki on July 13 at 7:30 as part of the nightclub's "Lox, Latkes and Literature Series."
Writer and raconteur, bon vivant and itinerant teacher of Yiddish, Michael Wex has been called "a Yiddish national treasure" and "a Borscht Belt comedian with a PhD in linguistics." Reviewing Born to Kvetch, Seth Rogovoy, book columnist for the Berkshire Jewish Voice and author of The Essential Klezmer, said, "Move over Leo Rosten; Michael Wex is here," referring to the author of the previously most popular comic-scholarly look at the language of Eastern European Jewry, The Joys of Yiddish, which is widely considered to have been supplanted by Wex's Born to Kvetch.
The last brittle sprout of a rabbinic family-tree, Wex is the sole descendant of the Hasidic Rebbes of Ciechanow and Strykow to have been born in Lethbridge, Alberta, a unique experience recounted in his tragic-comic memoir, Shlepping the Exile. Wex's professional activities extend into virtually every area of contemporary Yiddish. He has lectured and performed in venues ranging from Catskill hotels to recreation centers in what was once East Germany. Some of his Yiddish songs have been recorded by such klezmer bands as The Klezmatics, Sukke, and The Flying Bulgars. Wex has translated extensively from Yiddish to English, and his authorized Yiddish translation of Weill and Brecht's Threepenny Opera premiered in June 2001.
Wex's teaching and lecture activities -- a unique combination of learning, stand-up comedy and probing investigation into the nature of Yiddish -- have taken him from Toronto to Budapest and to many points in between. The approach is so unique and appealing that his annual series of classes on Yiddish at Klezkamp has been renamed "Wexology." The only complaint ever heard is that people are enjoying themselves so much that they forget to take notes.
"The only thing smarter and funnier than reading Michael Wex's book on Yiddish is hearing him speak about it," says Seth Rogovoy.
The event will include a book sale and signing. Dinner reservations begin at 5. Call 413.528.3394 for reservations, or visit www.clubhelsinkiweb.com for more information.
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