Baruch Agadati
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Baruch Agadati
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 Agadati on far right, with other artists (1925) |
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| Born | Baruch Kaushanski February 18, 1895 Bessarabia (Moldavia\Transnistria) |
| Died | January 8, 1895 (aged -82) |
| Resting place | Trumpeldor cemetery; Tel Aviv |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design |
| Home town | Odessa; Tel Aviv |
| Religion | Jewish |
Baruch Agadati (Hebrew: ברוך אגדתי, also Baruch Kauschenski-Agadati; January 8, 1895–January 18, 1976) was a Russian-Israeli classical ballet dancer, choreographer, painter, and film producer and director.[1][2][3] He is considered a legendary figure in Israeli culture.[4]
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Biography
Baruch Kaushanski (later Agadati) was born to a Jewish family in Bessarabia,[5] and grew up in Odessa.[2] He immigrated to Palestine in the early 1900s.[4] In Palestine, he was known for performing Jewish folk dances in an expressionist style.[6]
Agadati attended the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem from 1910–14.[4][7] When World War I started in 1914, he was in Russia visiting his parents and was unable to return to Palestine.[8] He remained there and studied classical ballet, joining the dance troupe of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater.[9] In 1919, he returned to Palestine. In 1920, he moved to the Neve Tzedek neighborhood in Tel Aviv, where he lived until his death.[4]He is buried in Trumpeldor cemetery in Tel Aviv.
Dance and film career
After Agadati's return to Palestine in 1919, he gave solo dance recitals[9] and became one of the pioneers of cinema in Israel.[10][11] Agadati purchased cinematographer Yaakov Ben Dov's film archives in 1934, when Ben Dov retired from filmmaking.[11] He and his brother Yitzhak used it to start the AGA Newsreel.[11][12] He directed the early Zionist film entitled This is the Land (1935).[13]
In the 1920s and 1930s, he was known for organizing Tel Aviv Purim balls.[4][14][2]
In 2005, he was voted the 200th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[15]
See also
References
- ^ Dalia Manor (2005). Art in Zion: the genesis of modern national art in Jewish Palestine. http://books.google.com/books?id=-mBzhiDMzf0C&pg=PA132&dq=Baruch+Agadati+1895&hl=en&ei=bnY7Tqq0EIS10AH8s7nbAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Baruch%20Agadati%201895&f=false. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Israel Museum Information Center for Israeli Art – Artists' Information". Israel Museum. http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/default.asp?artist=269926. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ Ruth Eshel (March 1, 2009). "Dance in the Yishuv and Israel". Jewish Women's Archive. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/dance-in-yishuv-and-israel. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Stephanie Fried (March 5, 1993). "What A Party!". The Jerusalem Post. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99734312.html?dids=99734312:99734312&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+05%2C+1993&author=Stephanie+Freid&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=WHAT+A+PARTY!&pqatl=google. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ World Union of Jewish Studies (1992). "Jewish studies". ha-Igud. http://books.google.com/books?id=uL4RAQAAMAAJ&q=agadati+jewish&dq=agadati+jewish&hl=en&ei=X5M7Tq6lDdK00AHdpLzcAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFcQ6AEwCTgK. Retrieved August 8, 2011.
- ^ Karl Eric Toepfer. Empire of ecstasy: nudity and movement in German body culture, 1910–1935. http://books.google.com/books?id=FgvYUZh75WwC&pg=PA193&dq=Baruch+Agadati+1895&hl=en&ei=bnY7Tqq0EIS10AH8s7nbAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Baruch%20Agadati%201895&f=false. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ Art in Zion: the genesis of modern .... http://books.google.com/books?id=-mBzhiDMzf0C&pg=PA132&dq=Baruch+Agadati+1895&hl=en&ei=bnY7Tqq0EIS10AH8s7nbAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%20Agadati%20&f=false. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ "Agadati (Kaushanski), Baruch". Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2007. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2587500515.html. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ a b The Israel Museum journal. 1986. http://books.google.com/books?id=LMczAQAAIAAJ&q=Baruch+Agadati+1895&dq=Baruch+Agadati+1895&hl=en&ei=bnY7Tqq0EIS10AH8s7nbAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFkQ6AEwCQ. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ Amos Oz, Barbara Harshav (2000). "The silence of heaven: Agnon's fear of God". Princeton University Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=8aM-aoX_5dIC&pg=PA197&dq=Baruch+Agadati+1895&hl=en&ei=bnY7Tqq0EIS10AH8s7nbAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Agadati%20&f=false. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ a b c Oliver Leaman (2001). Companion encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African film. Taylor & Francis. http://books.google.com/books?id=hP16fBJ06yUC&pg=PA324&dq=Baruch+Agadati+1895&hl=en&ei=bnY7Tqq0EIS10AH8s7nbAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Agadati&f=false. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek (1997). Filmexil. Hentrich. http://books.google.com/books?id=dGscAQAAIAAJ&q=Baruch+Agadati+1895&dq=Baruch+Agadati+1895&hl=en&ei=jHw7ToaQFobfgQez2K3PBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCTgK. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ Gary Hoppenstand (2007). The Greenwood encyclopedia of world popular culture, Volume 4. http://books.google.com/books?id=StkiAQAAIAAJ&q=Baruch+Agadati+1895&dq=Baruch+Agadati+1895&hl=en&ei=jHw7ToaQFobfgQez2K3PBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBDgK. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ Wendy Luterman (March 2011). "Purim Years Ago as seen in the Movie Archives". Jewishmag.co.il. http://jewishmag.co.il/152mag/purim_videos/purim_videos.htm. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
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