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As a young dancer at the Royal Ballet School in London, Phyllis Spira was on the brink of a successful career abroad, but in 1965 she returned to her home in South Africa and became the country's prima ballerina.

When

18 October 1943

Biography

Phyllis Spira is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — As a young dancer at the Royal Ballet School in London, Phyllis Spira was on the brink of a successful career abroad, but in 1965 she returned to her home in South Africa and became the country's prima ballerina.

How & why

As a young dancer at the Royal Ballet School in London, Phyllis Spira was on the brink of a successful career abroad, but in 1965 she returned to her home in South Africa and became the country's prima ballerina. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Milton Shain, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Milton Shain

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As a young dancer at the Royal Ballet School in London, Phyllis Spira was on the brink of a successful career abroad, but in 1965 she returned to her home in South Africa and became the country's prima ballerina.

1943

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Milton Shain