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A Year in Retrospect: ‘The Gospel According To Chaim’ Makes Yiddish Theater History

JL;DR SUMMARY The Gospel According to Chaim, a historic Yiddish play by Mikhl Yashinsky, premiered on Christmas Eve 2023, marking the first original Yiddish-language drama in America in over 70 years. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Yiddish LanguageYiddishProgressive PoliticsNew Yiddish RepChaim EinspruchTheaterYiddish Book CenterJewish American HistoryQueer IdentityCultural Revival

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Manhattan, New York, United States
"Three days later, on Christmas Eve, 2023, The New Yiddish Rep staged their opening night performance of Di Psure Loyte Khaim, or The Gospel According To Chaim, at the Theater For The New City in Manhattan."
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
"The play recalls the real life story of Chaim Einspruch: a Jewish-American immigrant living in Baltimore who became a Christian missionary and translated the New Testament into Yiddish in 1941."
Detroit, Michigan, United States
"Yashinsky grew up steeped in a community of Yiddish-speaking artists in his home city of Detroit, Michigan."
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
"After graduating with a degree in European history from Harvard, Yashinsky took creative writing courses at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts."
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
"One of my grandparents is an immigrant from what is now Belarus. She spoke Yiddish with her parents, who immigrated to Windsor, Ontario."
Canada
"She spoke Yiddish with her parents, who immigrated to Windsor, Ontario."
New York City, New York, United States
"The Yiddish in English characters on top, English on the bottom allowing them to focus on acting and stage cues, rather than the language."
New Jersey, United States
"Josh Horowitz, 22, playing Gabe for the other half of the production, was neither Satmar Hasidic, nor the child of native Yiddish speakers like Rosenberg. Growing up in a Reconstructionist home in New Jersey, Horowitz saw learning Yiddish as an adult as a way to connect with his Ashkenazi Jewish heritage."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"In Weiszs home neighborhood, there are over 41,000 Yiddish speakers, according to the Endangered Language Alliance."
East Village, New York, United States
"After three weeks of rehearsal, the crew moved into their performance space at the Theater For The New City in the East Village."
Berlin, Germany
"He was already working on his next project: an original Yiddish musical about sin, and he said he had been receiving interest in performing The Gospel According To Chaim in Berlin."
Belarus
"One of my grandparents is an immigrant from what is now Belarus."

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