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Haas was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Polish Jewish family. Two of her grandparents are Holocaust survivors; her grandfather was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland during World War II, whereas her grandmother had immigrated to Israel from Hungary.
May 5, 2020 · Shira was born in Tel Aviv, Israel to Jewish parents. She spent most of her upbringing in Hod HaSharon in central Israel. At the age of the three, Shira was diagnosed with kidney cancer but...
Apr 27, 2020 · The four-part series, partly inspired by Deborah Feldman’s 2012 memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, follows Esty’s escape from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn to Berlin, the home of her estranged mother with whom she has long had a fraught relationship.
Jul 28, 2020 · The Israeli actress was nominated for best actress in a limited series for her role as a young Orthodox Jewish woman who escapes her unhappy life.
Jun 29, 2020 · Before she came to fame on Netflix in the hit Israeli series “Shtisel” and the miniseries “Unorthodox,” actress Shira Haas starred in the acclaimed 2018 drama ‘Broken Mirrors,” for which she...
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Jul 28, 2020 · On July 28, 2020, she became the first Israeli to be nominated for an Emmy Award for this role. Haas was born on May 11, 1995, in Tel Aviv, the youngest of three children, and grew up in Hod Hasharon. Her parents were born in Israel, but her grandparents were Holocaust survivors from Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
Jun 17, 2021 · After making a big splash in “Shtisel,” and then, “Unorthodox” — the 2020 miniseries about a young woman who leaves her Hasidic community in Brooklyn — Haas has taken on a new role: playing 17-year-old Vika in Ruthy Pribar’s new Israeli film “Asia,” which premiered in the U.S. last week.
