The Gospel According to Chaim

Author(s): Mikhl Yashinsky
The play dramatizes the true story of Chaim (or Henry) Einspruch, an Eastern European Jew who decided to translate the New Testament into Yiddish, his mother tongue. At the beginning of the Holocaust in 1941, Einspruch is living in Baltimore and is unable to find a Yiddish printer willing to print his translation. He is turned down by every publisher he approaches, but undeterred, he decides to self-publish. He learns the art of printing to produce an elegantly illustrated manuscript, which nobody wants to read.
Format: Full-length play
Running Time: 2 hours 15 minutes

Snapshot

Original or Prominent Production:
Theater for the New City, New York, December 2023–January 2024.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: Yiddish with English supertitles
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Produced by the New Yiddish Rep, New York.

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