Trivia

Children with Michael Gur: David Bernstein-Cohen and Aviva Gur.

1925 - 1931 Member of the Assembly of Representetives (the Parliament of Jewish Community in Palestine before the declaration of the State of Israel).

Recipent of the Israel Prize for the arts in 1975.

In 1921 she went to Palestine and joined David Davidow's company known as the "Hebrew Theater." When the group dissolved in 1923, she and other members went to Germany to study stage work.

She was an Israeli actress, director, poet and translator.

She studied with Konstantin Stanislavski in Moscow in 1918 before returning to Moldova as an actress, where she worked under the name Maria Alexandrova.

Her father was the doctor and community activist Jacob Bernstein-Kogan.

She translated plays and stories by de Maupassant, Tolstoy, Henri Barbusse, and Pearl Buck.

In 1925, she founded the first Hebrew-language periodical in Palestine dedicated to theater, Te'atron ve-Omanut.

After training as a medical doctor she enrolled in drama school.