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Miriam Bernstein-Cohen (russian: Мария Яковлевна Бернштейн-Коган he, מרים ברנשטיין-כהן), 1895–1991, was an
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actress, director, poet and translator. Miriam Bernstein-Cohen was born in Kishinev,
Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
. Her father was the doctor and community activist
Jacob Bernstein-Kogan Jacob Bernstein-Kogan was a Russian physician, Zionist, and Jewish community activist. He was born in 1859 in what is now Chișinău, Moldova (then Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire). His father was an important figure in the Kishinev Jewish ...
. She grew up in
Kharkov Kharkiv ( uk, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.
. After training as a medical doctor she enrolled in drama school. She studied with
Konstantin Stanislavski Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski ( Alekseyev; russian: Константин Сергеевич Станиславский, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin sʲɪrˈgʲejɪvʲɪtɕ stənʲɪˈslafskʲɪj; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian Soviet Fe ...
in Moscow in 1918 before returning to Moldova as an actress, where she worked under the name Maria Alexandrova. After immigrating to Palestine, Bernstein-Cohen settled in
Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
and joined the country's first professional theater company.Miriam Bernstein-Cohen in the Jewish Virtual Library
/ref> In 1925, she founded the first Hebrew-language periodical in Palestine dedicated to theater, ''Te'atron ve-Omanut''.


Awards and recognition

*In 1975, Bernstein-Cohen was awarded the
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, for theatre.


See also

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References

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