#jewish actresses

[yoramkelmer]

Ramola Devi (Rachel Cohen) (1917-1988), 1940s

[e-the-village-cryptid]

every time i speak to my parents and grandparents i learn new buckwild pieces of family lore

[poz-patrol]

Kat Dennings and her Khazar Milkers are a good fit for Lady Dimitrescu

[neechees]

Now I'm not an expert but like isn't it kind of antisemitic to get a Jewish actress to play the character of a big nosed witch trying to kill a Christian girl. Why did they cast Gal Gadot.

[rotzaprachim]

ok but this literally doesn’t say “supporting Israel” anywhere and it’s disturbing that you take recognizing civilian loss as “support for the state”

[koenji]

Rachel Sofaer, Jewish actress in Kolkata, in the Bollywood classic 'Punarianma: A Life Divine' in 1932.

Her family of Baghdadi Jews had migrated from Iraq first to Burma and then India. When Rachel's father fell on hard times financially, he permitted his daughter to act under the name Arati Devi. She was accompanied to the set by her mother and married a Baghdadi Jewish man in 1933 at age 21, never again acting in a film. Her cousin Abraham Sofaer became a Hollywood character actor. x

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Hanna Rovina as Leah in The Dybbuk, 1922

[jewishpopculture]

Barbra Streisand photographed by Herb Ritts for the cover of Vanity Fair (1991).

Streisand is a Jewish artist from NYC, and Ritts was a gay Jewish artist from LA.

[sunilification]

Hierarchy of Desire, Eva Green

[luvend3r]

remembering Daliah Lavi, who passed away exactly seven years ago.

Photographed here in 1964.

© Getty Images

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Ida Kamińska

Actress, director, and producer Ida Kamińska was born in 1899 in Odessa. Kamińska dedicated her life to Yiddish theater, become one of its foremost actresses. She performed in over 150 shows and produced more than 70 plays. In the 1930s, Kamińska started her own theater troupe in Poland, and continued to translate, adapt, and stage European and Jewish dramas despite rising antisemitism in the country. She fled Poland during the war, but returned in 1946 and worked to rebuild Jewish theater. In 1950, Kamińska became head of the State Jewish Theater in Warsaw. Among both Jews who remained in Poland and Holocaust survivors throughout the world, she became revered for continuing to create in the Yiddish language and contribute to the culture. Kamińska also acted in film, earning nominations for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her role in The Shop on Main Street in 1965.

Ida Kamińska died in 1980 at the age of 80.

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Jewish Austrian actress Ida Roland on a vintage postcard

[twixnmix]

Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher during their wedding ceremony at Temple Beth Sholom in Las Vegas on May 12, 1959.

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Marvelous Mermay: Love and Thunder

Natalie Portman's Lady Thor.

[koenji]

Nadira, otherwise known as Farhat Ezekiel, a Jewish Bollywood star in the 1950s and 60s who often played 'temptress' roles.

"At a time when custom and tradition kept many Indian women from performing in movies, liberated Jewish actresses and Jewish scriptwriters pioneered the building of the now world-renowned Bollywood brand." - American Sephardi Federation

Nadira was born on 5 December 1932 in Baghdad, Iraq, into a Baghdadi Jewish family. When she was an infant, her family migrated from Baghdad to Bombay in search of business opportunities.