Re: Fwd: Michael Wex article

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Ari Davidow wrote:

> Haven't read the article, but I generally feel that Michael Wex is
> tremendously fish.

Is "fish" some kind of new =klezmer-loshn=?
(Is it like "dope" or "phat")?

 Wex is a unique talent
(and a rare native Yiddish speaker).
Nothing "fish"y about him.

Heiko:  I think "an eulogy on New York's
great Jenny Romaine" is premature...
=zi lebt nokh=

Thanks for posting the article.

Wolf


> His song about the mixed kashruth (Orthodox no/
> conservative yes) swordfish is a classic, as is his country western
> song about intermarriage. Suspect that the article described below
> will be of great interest to members of this list.
>
> ari
>
> >
> > From: "Heiko Lehmann" <hklehmann (at) gmx(dot)de>
> > To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> > Subject: Michael Wex
> > Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:26:33 +0200
> >
> > Canadian playwright Michael Wex just published his "I Just Wanna Jewify: The
> > Yiddish Revenge on Wagner" in a Canadian theatre magazine. As an 
> > introduction
> > he wrote an article about Golus Storytheatre, Yiddish theatre, music and his
> > work (including an eulogy on New York´s great Jenny Romaine), which can be
> > read under
> >
> > <http://www.sukke.de/Golus/article.html>http://www.sukke.de/Golus/article.html
> >
> > Heiko.
>

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