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Ethel Kovinska (Kovenskaia), Yiddish- Russian-Israeli actress and singer (1925-2015)

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Ethel Kovinska (1926, Diatlovo - 2015, Tel-Aviv) was a Jewish theater actress in the Soviet Union and Israel. She was a student of actor and director Shlomo Mikhoels. She graduated from the Moscow State Jewish Theater (GOSET) drama school. She performed with GOSET until 1948 when it was shut down by the Soviet authorities. Then she performed in the Mossovet State Academic Theatre. In 1972, Ethel Kovinska moved to Israel, and was accepted as a regular actress at Habima Theatre. She was one of the founders of the Yiddishpiel Theater in Tel-Aviv (1987) where she also performed. The private collection of Ethel Kovinska includes the following materials: her notebooks; memoirs of her mother; various records (including photographs) reflecting her theater and concert activities in the USSR and Israel; records related to her husband - composer and pianist Lev Kogan; Ethel Kovinska’s interviews and essays on her activities --

Reference Code
P337
Dates
1941-2010
Consists of
12 files..
Languages
Russian; Yiddish; Hebrew; English; ukr; German;
Description
The private collection of Ethel Kovinska (Kovenskaia) consisting of records related to her life in the USSR and Israel. The records reflect her theater and concert activities, as well as activities of her husband - composer and pianist Lev Kogan. Materials relating to Ethel Kovinska's activities in the USSR include for example theater programs and brochures from the GOSET (1941-49), and a letter from the Jewish actor Benyamin Zuskin to Kovinska's parents (1945). There are also theater programs, posters and brochures from the "Mossovet" Theater (1950-72), programs of her recitals and performances, events commemorating Jewish writers and actors (1959-71), biographical note ("kharakteristika") on Kovinska composed by the director of “Mossovet” theater Yuri Zavadsky (1956), and more. Materials reflecting Ethel Kovinska’s activities in Israel contain theatre programs and brochures from the "Habima" (1972-88) and "Yiddishpiel" theaters (1988-98), announcements of Kovinska's recitals and concerts in Israel as well as of foreign concert tours with Yiddish songs. In addition, the collection contains programs, reviews and other materials on the touring performances of Ethel Kovinska and Lev Kogan in Europe, North America and Australia. The collection includes Ethel Kovinska's personal documetns, her notebooks and sheets with lyrics by various authors, and her speech at the Solomon Mikhoels' memorial evening in 1990. Lev Kogan’ materials include his personal documents, his manuscript of musical notations on the song “Shulamith”, photos of his and Kovinska’s concerts. An important part of the collection is the published memoirs of Ethel Kovinska's mother, Lisa Garber-Kovinska. There are also reviews and articles in Israeli, US-American, Soviet and Russian press on Kovinska’s and Kogan's performances, and Kovinska’s interviews.
Title Ethel Kovinska (Kovenskaia), Yiddish- Russian-Israeli actress and singer (1925-2015).
Contributors Benjamin,Zuskin 1899-1952
I︠U︡riĭ Aleksandrovich,Zavadskiĭ 1894-
Lev,Kogan 1927-2007.
Solomon Mikhailovich,Mikhoels 1890-1948
LizaGarber-Kovenski
Ethel,Kovinska 1926-2015
Moskovskii gosudarstvennyi evreiskii teatr
Moskovskiĭ gorodskoĭ sovet deputatov trudi︠a︡shchikhsi︠a︡
ha-Bimah
ha-Teʼaṭron ha-Yidi be-Yiśraʼel
Host Item Kovinska (Kovenskaia), Ethel - Private Collection
Level of Description Fonds Record
Biographical summary Ethel Kovinska (Kovenskaia) was born in July 1926 in Diatlovo (Belarus). Her mother was Lisa Garber-Kovinska, a renowned Jewish actress. Ethel Kovinska grew up in Grodno, and in 1940 moved to Moscow. She was accepted into the Moscow State Jewish Theater (GOSET) directed by Solomon Mikhoels. After the outbreak of the war with Nazi Germany, Ethel Kovinska followed the theater to Tashkent, where she graduated from its drama school. In 1943 she returned to Moscow with the theater and continued to perform. In 1948 the Soviet authorities ordered the theatre to be shut down, and Ethel Kovinska moved to the Mossovet State Academic Theatre directed by Yuri Zavadsky. In 1972, she immigrated to Israel with her husband - pianist and composer Lev Kogan. She was accepted as an actress at the Habima Theatre, and was one of the founders of the Yiddishpiel theater in Tel Aviv (1987). Ethel Kovinska died in Tel Aviv in 2015.
Ownership history In 2016 Marina Kogan transferred the archive to the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem
Language Note Russian
Yiddish
Hebrew
English
Ukrainian
German
National Library system number 990042343310205171
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