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Actress Will Perform
Classic Autobiography
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AMY J. MEHLER
Staff Writer
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ila Almagor, 50,
named Israel's Ac-
tress of the Decade,
plays the most difficult role
of her life next week.
She plays her mentally ill
mother, a Holocaust sur-
vivor who never forgave
herself for surviving.
Ms. Almagor brings her
biography live to Detroit
Feb. 6 at the Agency for Jew-
ish Education. She was in-
vited to Michigan by Sylvia
Kaufman of Muskegon who
is also chairman of the six-
community, four-state Mid
East/West Fest, which is
devoted to intercultural pro-
gramming.
The Summer of Aviya, in
play and in film, is the nar-
rative of Ms. Almagor's pri-
vate history: a child's trau-
matic loss of her war-scarred
mother to madness.
It took Ms. Almagor more
than 40 years to confront her
scarred past and emotionally
vacant childhood. No one
knew about her past — not
The Summer of
Aviya is required
reading among
Israeli students as
young as age 10.
even her husband, Israeli
producer Yaacov Agmon,
and daughter knew her
story.
But in 1987, Ms. Almagor,
star of Israeli stage and film,
suffered a nervous
breakdown. She cried non-
stop for five days. When it
was over, she had the begin-
nings of what was to become
a best seller. The Summer of
Aviya pinched a national
nerve. Letters flooded in —
from survivors, the mentally
ill and children.
Aviya, Hebrew for her
father, is about the tur-
bulent months of 1951 when
her mother, newly released
from a mental hospital,
dragged Ms. Almagor from
the Children's Village to live
in a wooden shack in Petach
Tikvah. That was the last
summer her mother spent
outside an institution.
The book, translated into
English, French, Russian
and Dutch, is required
reading among Israeli
students as young as age 10.
Following its film release,
Aviya was awarded "The
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Gila Almagor:
Acting her past.
Silver Bear" from the Berlin
Film Festival and the
"Golden Spike" in
Valladolid, Spain.
Ms. Almagor was born in
Israel, four months after the
death of her father, who was
killed by an Arab sniper.
When her mother, already
prone to rages and frequent
institutionalizations, was
shipped to one institution,
Ms. Almagor was sent to the
Children's Village, a place
established after World War
II for "orphans of disaster."
When Ms. Almagor turned
15, she left the village to join
the Habimah Theater School
in Tel Aviv. She never went
past the sixth grade in
school.
At 25, she studied in New
York with actors Uta Hagen
and Lee Strasberg.
During her 32-year career,
Ms. Almagor has portrayed
an array of characters: Anne
Frank, Joan D'Arc, Peter
Pan, Maggy in Arthur
Miller's After the Fall,
Elizabeth Proctor in Miller's
The Crucible, Masha in
Chekhov's The Three Sisters,
Nina in The Sea Gull and
Frankie in Frankie and
Johnny.
Ms. Almagor was named
Israel's Best Theater Actress
seven times since 1965 and
was honored six times as
Israel's Best Film Actress.
In 1990, she was chosen Ar-
tist of the Decade by the
Israeli Film Institute.
"Gila Almagor is not only
an unusually talented and
accomplished actress, she is
also an unusual and inspira-
tional human being," said
Sylvia Kaufman. "We are
lucky to have her." 0
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