Moni Ovadia

Salomone "Moni" Ovadia (born 16 April 1946) is a Bulgarian-born Italian actor, musician, singer, and theatrical author. His theatrical performances recall the lost world of eastern Jewish culture, its Yiddishkeyt core, with its profound "burden of pain, wisdom and folly", as it was before the devastations of the Holocaust cancelled it, and murdered almost half of the world's speakers of Yiddish.
Ovadia was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1946 to a Sephardi Jewish family, His father, a violinist, had... more