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God of Poetry

Apollo was about more than going to the moon

Climbing Down from Vimy Ridge

One of Canada’s leading historians makes a different case for military success

The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Michael Wex

Michael Wex is the author of Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (HarperCollins, 2006). His next book on Yiddish, Just Say Nu, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in the fall.

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Michael Wex

Red-Tinted Yiddish

How the USSR tried to Sovietize the Jews using their own language and traditions. March 2007