Baruch Agadati Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1895 - d. 1976

Baruch Agadati (also Baruch Kaushansky-Agadati; January 8, 1895 – January 18, 1976) was a Russian Empire-born Israeli classical ballet dancer, choreographer, painter, and film producer and director.

Baruch Kaushansky (later Agadati) was born to a Jewish family in Bessarabia,[4] and grew up in Odessa.[2] He immigrated to Palestine in the early 1900s.[5] In Palestine, he was known for performing Jewish folk dances in an expressionist style.[6]
Grave of Baruch Agadati

Agadati attended the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem from 1910–14.[5][7] When World War I started in 1914, he was in Russia visiting his parents and was unable to return to Palestine.[8] He remained there and studied classical ballet, joining the dance troupe of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater.[9] In 1919, he returned to Palestine. In 1920, he moved to the Neve Tzedek neighborhood in Tel Aviv. Until his death is 1976, he worked in theatre, painted, danced and choreographed Israeli folkdance, produced the famous Purim "Ad DeLo Yada" Carnival balls. He is buried in Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv.