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Sara Adler | |
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סערע אַדלער | |
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Born | Sara Levitskaya 26 May 1858 |
Died | 28 April 1953 New York City, U.S. | (aged 94)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1866–1928 |
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Children | 6; including Jay, Julia, Stella, Luther |
Sara Adler (née Levitskaya, some sources give Levitsky or Levitzky, changed to Lewis;[1] 26 May 1858 – 28 April 1953) was a Russian actress in Yiddish theater who made her career mainly in the United States. She was known as the "mother" or "duchess" of Yiddish theater.[2]
She was the third wife of Jacob Adler and the mother of prominent actors Luther and Stella Adler, and lesser-known actors Jay, Julia, Frances, and Florence Adler.[3] The most famous of her 300 or so leading roles included the redeemed prostitute Katusha Maslova in Jacob Gordin's play based on Tolstoy's Resurrection[4] and Batsheva in Gordin's The Homeless.[5][1] She introduced "realism" in acting before it became an American movement.[1]