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  • Upon the birth of her daughter Aviva in 1933, she and Gor decided to return to Palestine, where she auditioned repeatedly for Habimah but was rejected.

    Miriam Bernstein-Cohen. 2009

  • In Moscow she met Nahum Zemach and Menahem Gnessin, who were among the founders of Habimah and who asked her to join the new theater company.

    Miriam Bernstein-Cohen. 2009

  • After coming to Israel, she found her place in the Hebrew theater and studied at the Habimah studio under Zvi Friedland (1898 – 1967).

    Hebrew Theater: Yishuv to the Present. 2009

  • Like the other actors who had founded Habimah in Moscow, Rovina was part of a group which sanctified the theater.

    Hebrew Theater: Yishuv to the Present. 2009

  • More than any other actor or actress, Rovina was identified with the Hebrew theater and her name became almost synonymous with that of Habimah.

    Hebrew Theater: Yishuv to the Present. 2009

  • Her 1994 – 1995 production of the novel Gog u-Magog (1941) by Martin Buber (1878 – 1965) relates to the destruction of the Jewish world in Europe, while her 1981 direction of The Work Room by J.C. Grumberg (b. 1939) for the Habimah Theater required a Holocaust workshop for the cast.

    Michal Govrin. 2009

  • In 1937 Habimah even refused to allow Bernstein-Cohen to appear at an event at which the company was scheduled to appear.

    Miriam Bernstein-Cohen. 2009

  • Almagor began her professional career at the age of seventeen with Habimah.

    Hebrew Theater: Yishuv to the Present. 2009

  • Bernstein-Cohen remembered this insult for many years, forgiving it only in 1968, when, towards the end of her career, Habimah invited her to perform in Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan.

    Miriam Bernstein-Cohen. 2009

  • The group asked Menahem Gnessin, who had left Habimah, to be their manager and director.

    Miriam Bernstein-Cohen. 2009

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