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Hanna Rovina ( he, חנה רובינא; 15 September 1888 – 3 February 1980), also Robina, was an Israeli actress. She is often referred to as the "First Lady of Hebrew Theatre".
Hanna Rovina
. ''Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia''. Jewish Women's Archive. jwa.org. Retrieved 6 March 2017. Rovina's dressing room at Habima Theatre Rovina took her acting very seriously and tried to live the life of the character, as prescribed by the Stanislavski School.
Hanna Rovina ( he, חנה רובינא; 15 September 1888 – 3 February 1980), also Robina, was an Israeli actress. She is often referred to as the "First Lady of Hebrew Theatre".
Biography
Hana Rovina was born inByerazino
Byerazino ( be, Беразіно́, Bierazino), or Berezino (russian: Березино́, pl, Berezyna, lt, Berezinas), also known as Biarezan (Бярэзань, yi, בערעזין, Berezin), is a town on the Berezina River in Minsk Region o ...
, in the Igumensky Uyezd of the Minsk Governorate
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of the Russian Empire
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(present-day Belarus
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), to David Rubin, a timber merchant and Sarah-Rivka Rubin. She had one sister, Rahel and one brother, Zvi. She trained as a kindergarten teacher at a course for Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
-speaking kindergarten teachers in Warsaw
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(prior to the First World War
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).
She had a daughter, Ilana, born in 1934, with the Hebrew poet Alexander Penn
Alexander Penn ( he, אלכסנדר פן, russian: Александр Пэнн; 1906 – April 1972) was an Israeli poet.
Biography
Avraham (Alexander) Pepliker-Stern (later Penn) was born in Nizhnekolymsk, Russian Empire. According to one ...
.
Acting career
She began her acting career at the "Hebrew Stage Theatre" of Nahum Tzemach. She joinedHabima Theatre
The Habima Theatre ( he, תיאטרון הבימה ''Te'atron HaBima'', lit. "The Stage Theatre") is the national theatre of Israel and one of the first Hebrew language theatres. It is located in Habima Square in the center of Tel Aviv.
History ...
in 1917 just as it was being launched, and participated in its first production, a play by Yevgeny Vakhtangov
Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov (also spelled Evgeny or Eugene; russian: Евге́ний Багратио́нович Вахта́нгов; 13 February 1883 – 29 May 1922) was a Russian-Armenian actor and theatre director who founded the ...
. She became famous for her role as Leah'le, the young bride who is possessed by a demon in ''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 ...
'' by S. Ansky.
In 1928, Rovina and the other actors of Habima immigrated
Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...
to Mandate Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 i ...
. Habima became the flagship of the new national theatre movement, and Rovina was recognized as the movement's leading actress. The image of Rovina in her role as Leah in the Moscow performance of ''The Dybbuk'', in a white dress, with her long black braid, became an icon of the emergent Hebrew theatre.Yerushalmi, Dorit (March 1, 2009).Hanna Rovina
. ''Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia''. Jewish Women's Archive. jwa.org. Retrieved 6 March 2017. Rovina's dressing room at Habima Theatre Rovina took her acting very seriously and tried to live the life of the character, as prescribed by the Stanislavski School.
Nisim Aloni
Nissim Aloni ( he, נסים אלוני, 24 August 1926 – 13 June 1998) was an Israeli playwright and translator.
Biography
Aloni was born Nissim Levi to poor Bulgarian Jewish immigrant parents in Mandate Palestine. His family lived in Florentin ...
wrote a play, ''Aunt Liza'', especially for her and Rovina played the lead.
Rovina made high demands of her audience. She frequently stopped a play in the middle if she felt that the audience was not attentive enough. In one instance, she stopped the play ''Hannah Senesh'' in the middle of a scene and told the teenagers in the hall to stop eating sunflower seeds.
Awards and recognition
Rovina was awarded the Israel Prize for theatre in 1956. She remained active on stage until her death, in 1980. She died inRa'anana
Ra'anana ( he, רַעֲנָנָּה, lit. "Fresh") is a city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel. It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement, 1 km south of the village of Tabsur, where an important ...
, aged 91.
See also
*Theater of Israel
The roots of the culture of Israel developed long before modern Israel's Declaration of Independence (Israel), independence in 1948, and traces back to ancient Israel ( 1000 BCE). It reflects Jewish culture, Jewish history in the Jewish diaspora, ...
References
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