{{Short description|Israeli dance instructor and choreographer}} {{Infobox person | name = Gurit Kadman | native_name = גורית קדמן | birth_name = Gertrude (Gert) Loewenstein | birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|3|2|df=y}} | birth_place = Leipzig, Germany | death_date = {{Death date and age|1987|3|27|1897|3|2|df=y}} | death_place = Israel | other_names = Gert Kadman | occupation = Dance instructor and choreographer | known_for = Israeli folk dancing | awards = Israel Prize (1981) | image = File:גורית_קדמן_עם_בנה_גדעון.jpg }} '''Gurit Kadman''' ({{langx|he|גורית קדמן }}; b. March 2, 1897 - March 27, 1987) was an Israeli dance instructor and choreographer, and is considered the mother of Israeli folk dancing.
==Biography == Gertrude (Gert) Loewenstein (later Gurit Kadman) was born in Leipzig, Germany to an assimilated Jewish family that traced its roots to Prague. In her youth she was active in the ''Wandervogel'' German youth movement.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kaschl |first1=Elke |year=2003 |title=Dance and authenticity in Israel and Palestine: performing the nation |isbn=90-04-13238-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OfRAsefaeVEC&pg=PA48 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden, The Netherlands |series=Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia |volume=89 |issn=1385-3376 |page=48 }}</ref>
In 1919, she married Leo Kaufman, and the couple joined the Blau Weiss Zionist youth movement and began agricultural training in preparation for a communal life in Palestine. Her son, Raphael, was born before they left.
In 1920, they immigrated to Mandate Palestine and were among the founders of the communal settlement Heftziba, first near Hadera, where another son, Amnon, was born, and then at its permanent location in the Jezreel Valley. Later, they changed the family name to Kadman and Gert became Gurit.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/teachers/kadman_g.htm |title = Gurit Kadman |publisher = Phantom Ranch |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201604/http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/teachers/kadman_g.htm |archivedate = 2007-09-27 }}</ref>
In 1925, she accompanied her husband on an educational mission to Austria, where their daughter, Ayala, was born. Upon their return, Leo was employed by the Histadrut. In 1931, the family left the kibbutz and moved to Tel Aviv.
==Awards and honors== * In 1981, she received the Israel Prize, for dance.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashlag/Tashmab_Tashlag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashma |title=Israel Prize recipients in 1981 (in Hebrew)|publisher=Israel Prize Official Site}}</ref>
==Publications== * ''Am Roked'' ("A Dancing People"), 1964 * Ethnic Dance In Israel, 1982
== See also == *List of Israel Prize recipients
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.israelidances.com/choreographer.asp?name=guritkadman Details of all Gurit Kadman's dances]
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