Bente Kahan
Bente Kahan (born 1958 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian- Jewish actress and musician. She comes from a Hasidic family whose members encouraged the Yiddish music.
Her career as a musician and actress began in Tel Aviv and New York. Soon they played at important stages, such as those of the National Theatre of Israel and Norway. In order to develop her acting skills, they began a collaboration with the Norwegian theater director Ellen Foyn Bruun. In 1990 Bente Kahan received a prize from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture, which they the foundation of Teater Dybbuk - Oslo used (TDO ). The aim of the TDO is obtaining respectively the continuation of Jewish- European culture. In 2006 she founded in Breslau ( Wrocław), the Foundation Fundacja Bente Kahan ( FBK ), which sought to rebuild the old Breslau White Stork Synagogue. The building, which was not destroyed during the pogroms of November 1938, given the exodus of Polish Jews after 1968, but increasingly fell into disuse, since 2010 again serves as a prayer house and hosts an international center for Jewish culture and education as well as a museum of the Silesian Jews. For their commitment to rebuild the synagogue in 2010, she received the Culture Prize of Lower Saxony Silesia.