Mina Bern
Mina Bern | |
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| Born | Mina Bernholtz May 5, 1911 Bielsk Podlaski |
| Died | January 10, 2010 (aged 98) |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Yiddish theater |
| Awards | Obie Award |
Mina Bern (May 5, 1911 – January 10, 2010)Yiddish theater.[3]
Biography
Mina Bernholtz was born in
Bialystok under the director Yehuda Greenhoyz.[4] In 1930, through her relative Moishe Broderzon, she shortened her name and auditioned successfully to join the Ararat Yiddish cabaret theater in Łódź,[3] and then played at the Warsaw Scala and later, the Kaminska theaters and the local folk theater. With Dina Halperin and Sam Bronetski she worked in the collective Our Theater, and later with Zygmunt Turkov.[5] A few years later, she established a small cabaret theater in Białystok
.
Bern fled to Russia with her daughter after the
Hebrew.[citation needed
]
Death
She died in 2010, and was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens. [7]
Awards
Bern received an Obie Award in 1999, for her performance in Sweet Dreams (Zise khaloymes), at the Folksbiene.[8]
Filmography
- Brooklyn Babylon (2001) .... Nanna
- Flawless (1999) .... Mrs. Spivak
- Celebrity (1998) .... Elderly Homeowner
- The First Seven Years (1998) (TV) .... Landlady
- I'm Not Rappaport (1996)
- Everything Relative (1996) .... Grandma Kessler
- Little Odessa (1994) .... Grandma Tsilya
- It Could Happen to You (1994) .... Muriel's Neighbour
- Pressure Drop (1994) .... Ida Potashner
- Avalon (1990) .... Alice Krichinsky
- Crossing Delancey (1988) .... Would-be Victim
- Tenement (1985) (as Mina Bern Bonas) .... Ruth
See also
References
- ^ Berger, Joseph (January 12, 2010). "Mina Bern, Versatile Yiddish Actress, Dies at 98". The New York Times. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
- ^ Kilgannon, Corey (January 12, 2010). "Kvelling Over a Matriarch of the Yiddish Theater". The New York Times. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
- ^ a b c Queen of mamaloshen
- ^ a b Ben-Avraham, Michael (September 8, 2006). "Mina Bern: Portret fun a yidisher bine-kinstlerin" (Mina Bern: Portrait of a Yiddish Stage Artist) (in Yiddish). Forverts. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
- ^ a b Zylbercweig, Zalmen (1959). "Bern (Bernholts), Mina" (in Yiddish). Leksikon fun yidishn teater [Lexicon of Yiddish Theater]. With the assistance of Jacob Mestel. New York: Elisheva. Vol. 3, column 2296.
- ^ Kafrissen, Rokhl (7 April 2020). "Yiddish in Israel". Tablet. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- New York Times. p. A29. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- ^ Leon, Masha (January 11, 2010). "Mina Bern, Yiddish Theater Doyenne, Dead at 98". Forward. forward.com. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
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