MYRIAM FUKS
Myriam Fuks was born in Tel Aviv with Yiddish in her blood. Her mother, Franja Glasman, was an actress in one of Europe’s leading Yiddish theatres: the Kaminsky theater of Warsaw. Her uncle was a Yiddish poet and journalist. At the age of 12, Myriam Fuks joined the Yiddish Ykult theatre in Brussels. In 1974, she returned to Israel and became famous thanks to a song contest which was broadcast on national television. By 1984, her fame had spread to New York. Her recordings are acclaimed throughout the world. Myriam sings her love for Yiddish both on television and in the concert halls of Europe. Music is her natural language, and Yiddish is for her the language of emotion, of expressing the joy, the sadness, and the story of the people from a time and place when music and songs were a part of everyday life. Myriam Fuks is also an actress and recently completed filming ‘A Secret’ directed by Claude Miller, starring the French actors Patrick Bruel, Cecile de France and Julie Depardieu.