Aharon Meskin ( he, אהרן מסקין, 1898–1974) was an Israeli stage actor.
Biography
Aharon Meskin was born in 1898 in
Mogilev
Mogilev (russian: Могилёв, Mogilyov, ; yi, מאָלעוו, Molev, ) or Mahilyow ( be, Магілёў, Mahilioŭ, ) is a city in eastern Belarus, on the Dnieper River, about from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and from the bor ...
in the
Russian Empire
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(now in
Belarus
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). His parents were Moshe Meskin and Rashel Chasanov. Following the
Russian Revolution, Maskin joined the
Red Army
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, in which he became an officer and, in 1919, was responsible for the distribution of food to the residents of Moscow. During this period, he met members of recently founded Habima Theatre in Moscow and provided them with food.
He joined Habima Theatre in 1922, and appeared in its production of the play, ''The Dybbuk'' by S. Ansky.
In 1928, he aliyah, immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, Mandate Palestine.
During his career on the Hebrew stage, Meskin played many leading roles, including Othello; the Golem; Shylock (in ''The Merchant of Venice''); Willy Loman in ''Death of a Salesman''; the black pastor Stephen Kumalo in ''Cry, The Beloved Country''; Captain Queeg in ''The Caine Mutiny'' and many others. His final performance was in Nisim Aloni's ''The Gypsies of Jaffa'', produced in 1971.
Awards and recognition
* In 1960, Meskin was awarded the Israel Prize, in theatre.
See also
*Culture of Israel
*List of Israel Prize recipients
*List of Israeli actors
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Meskin, Aaron
1898 births
1974 deaths
Belarusian Jews
Jews from Mandatory Palestine
Israeli Jews
Soviet emigrants to Israel
Jewish Israeli male actors
Israeli male stage actors
Israel Prize in theatre recipients
People from Mogilev