Dina Halpern (15 July 1909,

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– 18 February 1989,

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-born actress of the

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, who came to the United States in 1938, on the eve of the

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, and spent the rest of her life there. She first became famous in the 1930s for her roles on the Yiddish stage in Poland, as well as in Yiddish-language films.Sochen, June (1981). ''Consecrate Every Day: The Public Lives of Jewish American Women, 1880-1980''. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 119-121.

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edition, 2014; and . Retrieved via ''Project MUSE'' database, 2017-06-13. After the war she performed with great success in Yiddish theaters in the U.S., especially in

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, where she made her home; and toured internationally, both as a guest star and a director of Yiddish troupes. Also well known for her recitations, she was highly regarded as an interpreter of classic and contemporary

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. Halpern won the

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in 1988. Halpern was a niece of the renowned Yiddish actress Ester Rachel Kaminska, and a cousin of Kamińska's daughter, the actress

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Filmography

* ''The Vow'' (1937) * ''

The Dybbuk ''The Dybbuk'', or ''Between Two Worlds'' (russian: Меж двух миров �ибук}, trans. ''Mezh dvukh mirov ibuk'; yi, צווישן צוויי וועלטן - דער דִבּוּק, ''Tsvishn Tsvey Veltn – der Dibuk'') is a play by ...

'' (1937) * ''I Have Sinned'' (1936)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Halpern, Dina Actresses from Warsaw 1989 deaths 1909 births Polish film actresses 20th-century Polish Jews 20th-century Polish actresses Polish stage actresses Yiddish theatre performers Polish emigrants to the United States Itzik Manger Prize recipients