Michael Wex, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, May 11
Don’t Knock Me a Teapot
Strange Yiddish Expressions and How They Got That Way
Michael Wex, Author of Born to Kvetch
Thursday, May 11, 2006 at 7:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Pre-Registration is not required.
Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Yiddishkayt Los Angeles
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Presented by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Sponsored by the Michael and Irene Ross Fund
Co-sponsored by Yiddishkayt Los Angeles
Novelist, playwright, lecturer, performer and authority on language and literature, Michael Wex has been called "a Yiddish national treasure" and "the finest Yiddish/ English translator around."
His most recent book, Born to Kvetch, provides a deadly accurate and wickedly funny overview of Yiddish language and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. He reveals the real origins of well-known Jewish customs and explains how The Three Stooges helped bring Yiddish to millions of unsuspecting children.
Directions Enter the UCLA campus at Westholme and Hilgard and proceed to the parking kiosk where you can purchase a parking pass for 8 dollars. Parking attendants will direct you to Lot 2, adjacent to the Faculty Center. For a campus map, click here.
Yiddishkayt Los Angeles
E-mail Yiddishkayt Los Angeles
phone: 323-692-8151
web: www.yiddishkaytla.org
