Lea Koenig (or Lia Koenig; , ; born Lea Kamien; 30 November 1929) is an Israeli actress,Official website; Parents (hebrew) nicknamed The First Lady of Israeli Theatre.Shalom - “I.B. SINGER’S WARSAW” OF WARSAW JEWISH CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Biography Lea Koenig was born in 1929 in Łódź, Poland, to a secular Jewish family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Her parents were the Yiddish actors Dina and Józef Kamień. She spent her childhood in Poland, then in Tashkent, in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Her father was murdered in the Holocaust. In the end of the 1940s, Lea Koenig with her mother emigrated to Romania, where she began studying at National University of Arts in Bucharest and debuted at Jewish Theatre.Biography in hebrew In 1961, she emigrated to Israel.
Primarily acting in Hebrew, Koenig performs in Israel and all over the world also in Yiddish theaters.Biography She speaks English, Hebrew, German, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Yiddish.
Awards and honors In 1987, Koenig was awarded the Israel Prize for acting. Both the Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University have conferred Honorary Doctorates on her. In 2012 she received the EMET Prize for art and culture In 2018 Koenig was honored as one of the ceremonial torchbearers for Israel's 70th Independence Day
See also List of Israel Prize recipients
External links Official website
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