Rita Karin

Né le 24 octobre 1919 à Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania], mort le 10 septembre 1993.

She was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. Also appeared at the beginning of Sophie's Choice as Yetta, Sophie's (Meryl Streep) landlady. Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.