Lea Koenig

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Lea Koenig
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Lea Koenig in 2013
Born
Lea Kamień

(1929-11-30) 30 November 1929 (age 91)
Łódź, Poland
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materBucharest National University of Arts
OccupationActress
Years active1948-present

Lea Koenig (Hebrew: ליא קניג‎; born 30 November 1929) is an Israeli theatre actress,[1] nicknamed The First Lady of Israeli Theatre.[2]

Biography[]

Lea Koenig was born in 1929 in Łódź, Poland, to a secular Jewish family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Her parents were the Yiddish actors Dina and Józef Kamień.[1] She spent her childhood in Poland, then in Tashkent, in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Her father was murdered in the Holocaust. In the end of the 1940s, Lea Koenig with her mother emigrated to Romania, where she began studying at National University of Arts in Bucharest and debuted at Jewish Theatre.[3] In 1961, she emigrated to Israel.

Primarily acting in Hebrew, Koenig performs in Israel and all over the world also in Yiddish theaters.[4] She speaks English, Hebrew, German, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Yiddish.

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Official website; Parents (hebrew) Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Shalom - “I.B. SINGER’S WARSAW” OF WARSAW JEWISH CULTURAL FESTIVAL Archived 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Biography in hebrew Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Biography Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1987 (in Hebrew)". Retrieved 2009-07-03.
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