Ida Kamińska

Ida Kamińska

Born: September 4, 1899
Died: May 21, 1980
in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Ida Kamińska (September 18, 1899 – May 21, 1980) was an Academy Award-nominated actress. She began a stage career at the age of five. Her first theater role was in 1912 in Mirele Efros, with her mother and her sister in other roles in the play.

In 1965, she starred in the Czechoslovak movie The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos), and she received a 1966 nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her last role was The Angel Levine (1970), directed by Ján Kadár.

Following her death from cardiovascular disease in 1980, aged 80, she was interred in the Yiddish theatre section of the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, New York.

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Movies for Ida Kamińska...

The Angel Levine
Title: The Angel Levine
Character: Fanny Mishkin
Released: July 28, 1970
Type: Movie
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
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The Black Dress
Title: The Black Dress
Character: Karola
Released: June 4, 1967
Type: Movie
Two handed chamber piece about a middle aged woman who returns from the camps after WWII and meets the mother of her deceased husband. Unable to explain the truth about her husband’s death, Joanna weaves a web of lies to comfort the old woman. In time she is forced to involve more and more people who know of his fate.
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The Shop on Main Street
Title: The Shop on Main Street
Character: Rozalia Lautmannová
Released: September 9, 1965
Type: Movie
In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.
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Without a Home
Title: Without a Home
Released: January 2, 1939
Type: Movie
The last Yiddish feature made in Poland before WWII, this 1939 film is based on a 1907 play by the prolific playwright Jacob Gordin.
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Tkies khaf
Title: Tkies khaf
Character: Rachel Kronenberg - daughter
Released: February 26, 1924
Type: Movie
Starring real-life mother and daughter Ester-Rokhl Kaminska and Ida Kaminska, this film is a precursor to the 1937 classic, The Dybbuk, featuring the same classic tale of frustrated love and destiny and the breaking/fulfillment of vows.
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Małżeństwo na rozdrożu
Title: Małżeństwo na rozdrożu
Released: January 1, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Stepmother
Title: The Stepmother
Released: January 2, 1914
Type: Movie
Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.
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Bigamistka
Title: Bigamistka
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie
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Mirele Efros
Title: Mirele Efros
Released: January 2, 1912
Type: Movie
Directed by Andrzej Marek.