Aharon Meskin
Israeli actor (1898-1974)
Aharon Meskin (Hebrew: אהרן מסקין; 22 March 1898 – 11 November 1974) was an Israeli actor.
Biography
Aharon Meskin was born in 1898 in Shumyachi in the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire. His parents were Moshe Meskin and Rashel Chasanov. Following the Russian Revolution, Maskin joined the Red Army, in which he became an officer and, in 1919, was responsible for the distribution of food to the residents of Moscow. During this period, he met members of recently founded Habima Theatre in Moscow and provided them with food.
He joined Habima Theatre in 1922, and appeared in its production of the play, The Dybbuk by S. Ansky.
In 1928, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine. In his personal life, he had two sons. His eldest son Amnon was an actor, and his youngest son Yuval works for Kol Yisrael.
During his career on the Hebrew stage, Meskin played many leading roles, including Othello; the Golem; Shylock (in The Merchant of Venice); Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman; the black pastor Stephen Kumalo in Cry, The Beloved Country; Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny and many others.
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