Background
Mina (Bernholtz) Bern was born in Bielsk Podlaski.
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She was a star of the Yiddish theater. Her theatrical debut was in Bialystock under the director Yehuda Greenhoyz. In 1930, through her relative Moishe Broderzon, she shortened her name and auditioned successfully to join the Ararat Yiddish cabaret theater in Łódź, and then played at the Warsaw Scala and later, the Kaminska theaters and the local folk theater.
With Dina Halperin and Sam Bronetski she worked in the collective Our Theater, and later with Zygmunt Turkov.
A few years later, she established a small cabaret theater in Białystok. Through Jewish family connections she went to Kenya in 1945 and from there to Israel where she worked with Jenny Lavitz in the revue Rozhinkes mit mandlen, favorably reviewed and subsequently staged at the Hebrew Li-Louisiana-Lo revue theater.
In 1949, after an incident in which she was accused of sending a thug to beat up theater critic Haim Gamzu, who had written a bad review of her performance, she emigrated to the United States.
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She was a member of the Hebrew Actors" Union and recorded songs in Hebrew.
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