Shlepping the Exile | 
|  | | | Title: | Shlepping the Exile | | Author: | Michael Wex | | Publisher: | Mosaic Press (NY) | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 30 June, 2006 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0889625425 / 9780889625426 | | List Price: | $15.00 | | You Save: | $4.80 | | Amazon Price: | $10.20 | |
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This hilarious novel is an inside portrait of orthodox, post-Holocaust Judaism in a place that it never expected to be. It's the story of Yoine Levkes, boy hasid of the Canadian Prairies, his refugee parents ...confronted with dying people, an ailing culture, the perils of near orphanhood, the allures of Sabina Mandelbroit ...too religious to be normal and too normal not to realize this ...Humour, satire, irony...and more. It's all here in Michael Wex's first and only novel - "Shlepping the Exile" which has also been published in German - but, of course, by a Swiss publisher!
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Customer Reviews:
• A Few Laugh-out-loud Moments 28 February, 2007
I read "Born to Kvetch" by the same author right before reading this book, and I think it helped. I'm not Jewish by heritage or upbringing, so a lot of the writing in "Shlepping the Exile" seemed like inside jokes that I didn't "get". However, there were a few passages sprinkled throughout the book that would be funny to most anyone.
Overall, I recommend "Shlepping the Exile" to people who are interested in Jewish culture, grew up around Orthodox/Hassidic Jewish people, or are speakers/students of the Yiddish language.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3JDCSWRL1B46I
• A Wonderful Read 07 November, 2002
This is the type of book that once you pick it you can't put it down. And on top of that, you keep finding yourself reading it over and over again.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3HGFD05YAFVNP
• Amazing! 31 December, 2006
Michael Wex is a gift to a world that takes itself far too seriously. I first read this book many years ago when it was privately offered by the author under the original title, "Shlepping the golus". I was afraid I might injure myself I laughed so hard.
As I wrote in another review ( Born to kvetch, CD version) the man is one of the creative geniuses of our time. I really don't care what he writes or records; I'll buy and enjoy it.
What most people don't know is that behind all of the self deprecating, Rabelaisian wit and hysterical humor is a true scholar. The man is multi-talented and an absolute one of a kind. He has multiple graduate degrees, is a doctor of everything many times over, an expert in philology, medieval literature, popular culture and music, a rock musician, a stand up comedian and a real sweetheart.
This is an autobiography unlike any that I have ever read. My only regret is that I didn't write it.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2GWUSDTZT2VUS
• Amazing And Hysterical 03 January, 2007
Read this book! It is an absolute page-turner, hysterical, but still poignant. You don't need to be Jewish to "get" it, but it does help.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A21S8GDNJW18CL
• Strange Golus 09 November, 2007
Shlepping the Exile is a most unusual coming of age novels, and here Wex shows the same virtuosity at weaving incongruous elements into one fabric as he did in Born To Kvetch. Shlepping is written with near manic intensity, but the foundation of Wex's ideas are solid, and the even when he goes off the rails, almost writing in an argot of Yiddish and English, the effect is enchanting and unreal. Most of all, Wex documents an obscure corner of the Diaspora, long gone, Western Canada, where the impossible seems almost possible: Yiddish rubbing elbows against a "frontier" western town.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A11DCTGTPS7M0C
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