Meet Max Spitzkopf, the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes (SOLD OUT)
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All aboard the midnight train to Vienna — but watch out for any ganovim (thieves) lurking in the shadows.In 1908, Galician author Jonas Kreppel unloosed the crime-solving capers of Viennese master detective Max Spitzkopf upon a captivated Yiddish-reading public. One early fan was Isaac Bashevis Singer, who remembered their thrillingly pulpy language as “heavenly music.” Finally published in English in 2025, Spitzkopf’s translator, the American Yiddishist and actor Mikhl Yashinsky, has adapted one story into a musical theatrical whodunnit adventure.
Presented by Kadimah, Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and Yiddish Australia
In both English and Yiddish (with English supertitles). Recommended for ages 10+.
Born in Detroit, Mikhl Yashinsky is a Yiddish playwright, performer, translator, and teacher based in NYC. He appeared on Broadway in the Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof directed by Joel Grey, and in the title role of Abraham Goldfaden’s The Sorceress.
Recently, he was featured as one of the new wave international Yiddish performers taking the world by storm, in the Australian documentary Welcome to Yiddishland.
Book sales and signing on the night.
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