of Yiddish poets. Awards Alberstein has won the Kinor David (David's Harp) Prize. In 1999, she received the Itzik Manger Prize. On 28 January 2011, she received the Lifetime Achievement Music Award from the Israel Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers of Musical Works, and holds honorary doctorates from Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science of Israel. On 13 May 2018, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from Brandeis University. Quotes "Even though I have lived in Israel nearly my entire life, I am constantly questioning my place in the world. Maybe this searching comes from being an artist, maybe it comes from being a Jew. I'm not really sure". Discography References External links Chava Alberstein at Aviv Productions Chava Alberstein at Nature et Culture (archived) 1946 births Living people Polish emigrants to Israel Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent English-language singers from Israel 20th-century Israeli women singers 21st-century Israeli women singers Yiddish-language singers Israeli film score composers Israeli women writers Jewish folk singers Label Bleu artists Itzik Manger Prize recipients