Menahem Gnessin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Menahem Gnessin

Jewish actor

Date of Birth: 25-Jul-1882

Place of Birth: Starodub, Bryansk Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 22-Aug-1951

Profession: actor, stage actor, theater director

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Menahem Natanovich Gnessin (Russian: ????´??? ????´????? ???´???; Hebrew: ???? ??????; 1882–1952) was an early Russian Jewish actor and Hebrew language instructor who created the Amateur Dramatic Arts Company in 1907 for presentation of plays in Hebrew.
In 1917, at Moscow he also helped start Habimah, the world's first professional Hebrew theater.
He is best known as an actor in the 1933 drama, Oded the Wanderer.
Gnessin wrote articles about his time in the theater, and published memoirs titled Darki im ha-Te'atron ha-Ivri, 1905–26 (My Career in the Hebrew Theater, 1946).Born in Starodub, he emigrated to Palestine, where he died in 1952.



Alternative names	Sos?in, Avraham?; Soskin, Abraham?; Soskin, Avraham?
Description	Israeli photographer
Date of birth/death	28 November 1881 / 1882	28 August 1963 / 1965
Location of birth/death	Orsha	Tel Aviv
Authority control	: Q6862525 VIAF: 88129977 ISNI: 0000 0000 6684 6771 LCCN: nr93044916 GND: 126965226 BNF: 17087900z WorldCat