Mikhl Yashinsky
Biography
Mikhl Yashinsky was born in Detroit and graduated with a degree in European history and literature from Harvard. Now living in New York, he works as a teacher, translator, and actor. He performed in Fiddler on the Roof directed by Joel Grey and the classic operetta The Sorceress, in which he brought a “keen, if malevolent, psychology” to the title role (New York Times). He is one of the few people in the world today writing original Yiddish theatre works, among them The Gospel According to Chaim, which “jolted the repertoire with a work that is both traditional and delightfully subversive” and the musical Feast of the Seven Sinners, a “saucy spectacle…which sprouts excitingly unorthodox fruit” (Forward). He co-authored the award-winning language textbook In eynem and is also the translator of Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes and a number of stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer in the collection In the Land of Chaos: Selected Early Works.