Mirit Cohen

Mirit Cohen (Hebrew: מירית כהן; 1945 – May 3, 1990) was a Russian-born Israeli sculptor and painter. Cohen resided in New York City from 1975. Manya Malka (later Mirit) Cohen) was born in the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union to a socialist and Zionist family. Her father, Haim Cohen, a Polish Jew, was born in Łódź, and fled during the Second World War to Russia, where he met her mother Rebecca – A Russian woman of Jewish descent. After the war, her family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. They were deported to a detention camp in Cyprus. As a result, Cohen's first years were spent in a displaced persons camp. In 1948, after the establishment of Israel, the family settled in Givat Shmuel. In 1956 Cohen was sent to study at Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk. In 1958 she won a youth drawing competition in Japan.