[1][2][3] Baruch Kaushansky (later Agadati) was born to a Jewish family in the Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire[4] and grew up in Odessa.

Until his death is 1976, he worked in theatre, painted, danced and choreographed Israeli folkdance, produced the famous Purim "Ad DeLo Yada" Carnival balls.

[2] After Agadati's return to Palestine in 1919, he began to give solo dance recitals[10] and became one of the pioneers of cinema in Israel.

[2][5][16] Agadati's costume for "Yihie" ("Yemenite Ecstasy"), a solo show that also toured Europe and South America, was designed by Natalia Goncharova of Ballets Russes.

Photographer: Atelier Willinger, Vienna Collection of the Bat Sheva and Yitzhak Katz Archive, Information Center for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem