Nissan Nativ (

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: ניסן נתיב) (originally Notowicz; 5. November 1922 – 20 April 2008) was an influential Israeli

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and acting teacher.

Life

Nissan Nativ was born 1922 (as Nissan Notowicz) in

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. In many biographies he is listed as born in

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. Possibly Nissan Nativ himself was the source of this ambiguity. Nissan had two older brothers, Benno Notowitz (1918-1962) and

Nathan Notowicz Nathan "Noto" Notowicz (31 July 1911 – 15 April 1968) was a German musicologist and composer. Leben Born in Tyczyn, Notowicz was the son of a merchant. The family moved to Munich in 1913, where Notowicz attended primary schools. In Düsseldo ...

(1911–1968). His family moved from Munich to Düsseldorf, then in the early 1930s to Amsterdam. Nissan emigrated without the family to the British Mandate in Palestine in 1937. In September 1943, his family was deported to the

Westerbork transit camp Camp Westerbork ( nl, Kamp Westerbork, german: Durchgangslager Westerbork, Drents: ''Börker Kamp; Kamp Westerbörk'' ), also known as Westerbork transit camp, was a Nazi transit camp in the province of Drenthe in the Northeastern Netherlands, d ...

in the Netherlands and in February 1944, forth to

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in Germany. The father and brothers survived the Nazi persecution. Nativ joined the

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during World War II and served in the Armor Corps. He was a commander during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. After the war, Nissan Nativ enrolled at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Nissan Nativ moved from Israel to Paris where he studied

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. He worked as an Israeli theatre director and at Israel Radio when he returned from France. He founded the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio in 1963. The renowned acting school holds classes in both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Many of Israel's best known actors, such as Keren Mor, Tiki Dayan and Moshe Ivgi are

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of Nativ's school. Despite its success the school suffered from financial difficulties during the 1990s and 2000s, which nearly forced it to close. The Israel Prize committee decided to confer the Israel Prize, for theatre, on Nativ in 2008 citing his contributions to Israeli theatre and culture. The committee stated in its opinion that "You cannot imagine Israeli theater without Nissan Nativ". It also cited Nativ's training of generations of Israeli actors and directors through his Nissan Nativ School of Acting. Nativ died before he could receive the Israel Prize in person. He was found dead of an apparent

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in his apartment in Tel Aviv at the age of 86 on 20 April 2008.

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* *Nissan Nativ in the film The Acting Teacher
Studio Hanabi Production
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Life

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