Maya Deren (1917–1961) |
Maya Deren came to the USA in 1922 as Eleanora Derenkowsky. Together with her father Solomon Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist, and her mother Maria Fidler, an artist, she fled the pogroms organized by the Bolsheviks against the Jews. She studied journalism and political science at the Syracuse University in New York, finishing her BA at the New York ...
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Born:in Kiev, Russia [now Ukraine]Died:(age 44) in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA |