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  Ida Kaminska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ida Kaminska (September 18, 1899 - May 21, 1980) was an Oscar-nominated Jewish Polish actress.
Born in Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine) she was the daughter of Yiddish stage actress Esther Rachel Kaminska (1870-1925) and stage producer, Avram Izhak Kashe.
Ida Kaminska began a stage career at the age of five.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ida_Kaminska   (372 words)

  
 Personal Information for Ida Kaminska
She was the daughter of the great Polish Yiddish actress, Ester Rachel Kaminska, and Abraham Yitzhak Kaminska, an actor, playwright and director.
Kaminska became a leading actress in her mother's Yiddish theater company, Warsaw's Kaminska Theater, and she toured Russia with them in 1918.
Kaminska then founded the Ida Kaminska Theatre, where she became both a star of the stage and a director.
www.jwa.org /archive/jsp/perInfo-print.jsp?personID=69   (333 words)

  
 Warsaw Voice
She was nominated for an Academy Award and was the first female director in the interwar period in Poland.
Ida was a great actress-not only by the standards of the theater she represented, Jewish theater, but by national standards.
Later, together with her husband, Turow, Ida established Warszawer Jidiszer Kunstteater, which was later dissolved.
www.warsawvoice.pl /viewSendFriend.php/10530   (819 words)

  
 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research | Ida Kaminska (1899-1980): Grande Dame of the Yiddish Theater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Ida Kaminska (1899-1980): Grande Dame of the Yiddish Theater, opened in May 2001 at the Center for Jewish History.
The exhibition traced the life of Ida Kaminska from 1923-24, when she and her husband, Zygmunt Turkow, established their Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater (WIKT) ensemble, to the post-war period, when she and her second husband, Meir Melman, founded the Jewish State Theater in Warsaw.
Ida Kaminska (1899-1980): Grande Dame of the Yiddish Theater was made possible by the generous support of Ewa and Jozef Blass and Victor Markowwicz.
www.yivoinstitute.org /digital_exhibitions/index.php?mcid=74   (422 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
An exhibition about Yiddish actress Ida Kaminska opened recently at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, in its headquarters at the Centre for Jewish History in Manhattan.
The exhibit, which is titled Ida Kaminska (1899-1980): Grande Dame of the Yiddish Theater, includes theatre posters and many photographs and photo stills.
Kaminska, whose parents ran a touring Yiddish theatre, made her theatrical debut at the age of seven.
www.cjnews.com /pastIssues/01/july19-01/tab/travel.htm   (613 words)

  
 Ida KAMINSKA : astrology, horoscope, planets, Map of the Heavens, Interactive Chart
Depending of the fact that the time of birth is known or not, 6 or 11 planets distributions and planets dominants have been computed for the natal chart of Ida KAMINSKA.
Only 6 diagrams out of 11 are displayed, and precision of these computations is of course not of the same level than those for the case of the known time of the event.
Texts are not translated, so if you wish to read interpretations associated with theses computations, you need to go to the full astrological Portrait of Ida KAMINSKA and to use this Google Automatic Free Website Translator.
www.astrotheme.fr /en/portraits/yZem7fQ3sddq.htm   (496 words)

  
 The Shop on Main Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The woman thinks he has come to work for her, and their relationship grows, until the authorities demand that all of the Jews leave the town.
It stars Jozef Króner as Tono Brtko and Ida Kaminska as Jewish widow Rozalie Lautman.
The movie won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and was nominated in 1966 for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Ida Kaminska).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Shop_on_Main_Street   (191 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - The Shop on Main Street: Criterion Collection
The counterpoint to all this is Ida Kaminska as Mrs.
Kaminska, like Kroner, understands the basic absurdities of her character's position.
She too makes a startling transition when she is suddenly awakened to reality; her transformation is visible as realization spreads across her face and she breathes a single, hated word: pogrom.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/shoponmainstreet.php   (2168 words)

  
 The Criterion Collection: Shop on Main Street, The   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
She is a daughter of Esther Rachel Kaminská, the famous Polish actress who founded the theater just 100 years ago.
The Kaminská family represents something of a dynasty of actors for Ida. Her husband, daughter, and son-in-law are now acting at the theater.
Ida Kaminská carries the widow Lautmann’s fate within herself, and she plays from actual experience.
www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=130&eid=202§ion=essay&page=3   (226 words)

  
 New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Born in Odessa in 1899, she was on the stage and in the movies from 1903 till her death from a heart attack in New York City in 1980.
"I come from generations of Polish Jews who were fans of Ida Kaminska, and before her, her mother and father.
The Kaminska story came to him in 1991 from a friend.
www.nypress.com /15/1/nyc/nyc2.cfm?in1=y   (1522 words)

  
 Ida Kaminska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The daughter of a celebrated actor and actress of the Yiddish theater, she began her stage career as a child of five and later played numerous leading roles at the Kaminski Theater in Warsaw.
After touring the Soviet Union for three years, she established her own troupe in Warsaw, the Ida Kaminska Theater, and directed many of the productions in which she starred.
Kaminska, who had appeared in several Polish films from the mid-20s to the mid-30s, was nominated for a best actress Oscar for her moving performance in the Czech film THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (1965).
theoscarsite.com /whoswho4/kaminska_i.htm   (177 words)

  
 Ida Kaminska: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/id/ida_kaminska.htm   (556 words)

  
 Coffee coffee and more coffee: The Shop on Main Street
I was totally unaware of Kaminska's stage career or that she was a star of Yiddish theater.
As it stands right now, none of Ida Kaminska's five previous films are, to the best of my knowledge, unavailable on tape or DVD.
One could easily excuse war and politics as well as other outside forces, but Poland realized that the Kaminska family, an equivalent to the Barrymores of Yiddish theater, were a national treasure well after the surviving family members left Europe.
www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com /archives/2006/01/the_shop_on_mai_1.html   (179 words)

  
 Czech: The Shop On Main Street - Criterion Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The ending is the movie's only flaw, only because it's too drawn out, with a surrealistic dream sequence included in which he assumes the role of her husband, both dressed in old costume.
Tono the carpenter (Josef Kroner), a fundamentally decent man, has been appointed the 'Aryan controller' of Rosalie the shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska) by his Nazi-sympathizer brother-in-law, who himself has been commissioned by the Germans occupying their Eastern European village in Slovakia during World War II.
Josef Kroner and Oscar nominee Ida Kaminska are both extraordinary along with Ladislav Grossman's brilliant screenplay and Kadar and Klos' exquisite direction.
dvd.lovebuygoods.com /CTR_573508_GD_B00005NFZD/The-Shop-On-Main-Street--Criterion-Collection.html   (1115 words)

  
 Warsaw Voice - My Life, My Theater
The outstanding Polish actor and director Gustaw Holoubek also remembers Kamińska fondly: "I saw her on stage many times.
"I must say that Ida was also an excellent mother.
Ida's son, Wiktor Melman, is particularly satisfied with this decision.
www.warsawvoice.pl /view/10530   (819 words)

  
 State Jewish Theatre in Warsaw
When, after 1968, a large group of Jewish actors left Poland, and among them such well-known artists as Ida Kaminska, Meir Melman and others, it seemed that the theatre would cease to exist.
However, the theatre survived through the hard times and reality proved that it is necessary not only for the Jewish community, but also for the Polish audience.
And to the Polish audience Jewish culture created in Poland, over almost a thousand years of mutual existence appears to be a part of the Polish national culture.
www.warsaw-hotels.net /eng/guide/theatres/jewishtheatre.html   (314 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Shop on Main Street at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Ida Kaminska was one of Europe’s finest actresses, and continued performing well into her eighth decade.
He is the perfect foil for Kaminska in this film, illustrating the moral dilemma of one man, Everyman, magnified millions of times into the world around him, at a time of unimaginable horror.
Every so often a movie comes along that deals with major themes so effectively and in such a personal way that I find myself in the middle of it, unable to extricate myself and examine and discuss it objectively.
www.epinions.com /content_77092916868   (1189 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na Korze) (1965)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lautmann is both hard of hearing and her sight is too poor to allow her to read, and he can't quite communicate the situation to her.
Like the stork nesting in the chimneys, he thinks he can hold himself aloof from the occurrences around him, but it's not possible when faced with the ultimate evil.
Ida Kaminska is a gem as the slightly dotty Mrs.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1667   (1008 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Ida Kaminska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The renowned Jewish Theater, led by Ida Kaminska in Warsaw, made a lasting impression on him.
After studying the violin at the city conservatory, he continued his studies in Israel, adding voice and the trombone, which he played in the Israeli Army Orchestra.
Between 1970 and 1975 he performed as a violist with the ORF Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of the Temple Choir since 1976, which he occasionally conducts.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Kaminska_Ida_2912976.htm   (147 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Shop on Main Street [IMPORT]: Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
"The Shop on Main Street" tells the story of Tony Brtko (Jozef Kroner), assigned as the Aryan supervisor of a small shop run by Rozalie Lautman (Ida Kaminska), a doddering old lady whose mind is mostly gone and lives in a fog, seemingly unaware that World War II is raging around her.
Things reach a shattering conclusion at the climax, as Tony is met by her frustrating oblivion to the danger she is in.
Ida Kaminska has received most of the attention in regards to this film.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/630278333X   (672 words)

  
 Bright Lights Film Journal | Closely Watched Trains, The Shop on Main Street
The film’s two stars, Josef Kroner and Ida Kaminska, are unexcelled, and form the most charismatically mix-matched star team in memory.
Kaminska, a leading actress from Warsaw theater, convincingly put on more than ten years to play Rozalie, the kindly, stubborn, and devout button seller.
Her weary but loving face is perfectly expressive, and we can’t help wondering if, in her shoes, we’d hide in a turtle shell, too.
www.brightlightsfilm.com /35/czech.html   (918 words)

  
 Hana - Movie Information at filmsandtv.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Directed By: Jan Kadar Starring: Jozef Kroner, Ida Kaminska, Hana Slivkova, Frantisek Zvarik, Martin Holly, Martin Gregor, Adam Matejka, Mikulas Ladizinsky, Alojz Kramar, Gita Misurova
Tono Brtko (Jozef Kroner) decides to ignore the rules and hide his Jewish friend (Ida Kaminska) from the Nazis.
Kaminska received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
www.filmsandtv.com /SearchMovie.aspx?q=Hana   (772 words)

  
 Obchod Na Korze - VHS, Laserdisc, DVD : Info, Customer Reviews & Bargain Prices : Shopzilla
In World War II Slovakia, an easygoing carpenter, Tono (Jozef Króner) is pressured to move up in the world by his ostentatious wife and fascist brother-in-law.
He takes the job of "Aryan comptroller" in a button shop owned by an aging Jewess, Rosalie (Ida Kaminska) who barely seems aware that there is a war unraveling the solidarity of the small town.
The capricious Kaminska was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award and Króner gives an impassioned performance that is unforgettable.
www.shopzilla.com /9L_-_cat_id--5106__prod_id--2014631   (441 words)

  
 The Angel Levine (1970)
And in the end one is not even really sure what all the ambiguity about whether Levine is mortal or divine is ultimately meant to mean - or for that matter if one could really care less.
Among the cast Mostel's wry, fatalistic performance succeeds in being occasionally moving, and the same can be said for Ida Kaminska as Fanny.
Gloria Foster is exceptional as the cynical, streetwise Sally - one can see the suspicious distrust in her eyes and yet the willingness at wanting to believe Levine.
www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/angellevine.htm   (460 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: The Angel Levine
Impoverished tailor Morris Mishkin (Zero Mostel) can't work because of a bad back, and worries how he's going to pay for medicine for his aging, ailing wife Fanny (Ida Kaminska).
Ida Kaminska looks much younger than the old lady in The Shop on Main Street, for which she won an Oscar nomination.
Milo O'Shea's concerned doctor rounds out the Mishkin social circle, and a pouty, no-nonsense Gloria Foster is excellent as Sally, willing to give her man the benefit of the doubt, but too tired to do it without a real commitment from him.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s641levine.html   (1397 words)

  
 Ida - Movie Information at filmsandtv.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Spitfire Grill is a restaurant in Gilead, Maine into which a number of characters gather and gossip is exchanged.
Both of her characters are in love with the same man (Conway Tearle), and only one will win his love.
One Hemophage, warrior Violet (Milla Jovovich), seeks revenge on those who caused her condition by protecting a young child, Six (Cameron Bright), who had been raised in a lab as a weapon to destroy all Hemophages.
www.filmsandtv.com /searchmovie.php?q=Ida&pg=6   (628 words)

  
 Apollo Movie Guide's Review of Shop on Main Street, The   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The story grows from there as the two develop a unique friendship during a time when Jews and ‘Aryans’ were not to associate with one another.
Ida Kaminska and Jozef Kroner give amazing and convincing performances, helping us sympathize with character’s horrible dilemmas — Tono’s realization that he may lose his life by protecting Mrs.
Deservedly, it won the 1965 Oscar for best foreign film and garnered a nomination for Kaminska as best actress, an impressive feat for any non-English language film to achieve.
www.apolloguide.com /mov_print.asp?CID=4596&RID=   (628 words)

  
 Shop on High Street movie for sale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Comments: In World War II Slovakia, an easygoing carpenter, Tono (Jozef Króner) is pressured to move up in the world by his ostentatious wife and fascist brothe
Jozef Kroner, Ida Kaminska, Hana Slivkova, Elmar Klos
Ida Kaminska Nominated for Best Actress in a Drama.
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 KlezCalendar: Mlotek, Czackis, Yiddish Tango, NYC, Sep 12   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The upcoming New York concert, "Tangos and Sizzling Songs from the New York Yiddish Theatre" reunites Czackis and Mlotek, the world-recognized Yiddish music expert, conductor and composer with whom she performed in 2003 at the first International Forum for Yiddish Culture in London.
A wide range of tangos performed famously in New York by such greats as Molly Picon, Maurice Schwartz, Jacob Ben Ami, Benzion Witler, Michael Michalovic and Ida Kaminska showcases the work of such composers as Jacob Jacobs, Chaim Tauber and Alexander Olshanetsky, among others.
Incidentally, in the course of her remarkable career, guest artist Shifra Lerer performed on stage with the above-mentioned Schwartz, Ben Ami, Witler, Michalovic and Kaminska.
www.klezmershack.com /calendar/001540.php   (308 words)

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