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Jacob Pavlovich Adler ( Yiddish: יעקבֿ פּאַװלאָװיטש אַדלער; born Yankev P. Adler; [1] February 12, 1855 – April 1, 1926) [2] was a Jewish actor and star of Yiddish theater, first in Odessa, and later in London and in New York City's Yiddish Theater District.
Jacob P. Adler. Actor: Michael Strogoff. Jacob Adler, the legendary "Great Eagle"' ("adler" is the German word for "eagle") of the Yiddish theater, was one of the great American stage actors, ranking with Edwin Booth, John Barrymore and Marlon Brando.
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Jacob Pavlovitch Adler was a Jewish Yiddish entertainer. He was born in Odessa, Russia, in 1855 and was raised in both the traditional Jewish world and in the more modern, European one. He first became interested in the theatre, through his uncle Arke.
Jacob Adler, the legendary "Great Eagle"' ("adler" is the German word for "eagle") of the Yiddish theater, was one of the great American stage actors, ranking with Edwin Booth, John Barrymore and Marlon Brando.
- February 12, 1855
- March 31, 1926
Jacob Adler, with his performances in the Yiddish King Lear , Uriel Acosta and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice , became first a megastar of the exploding Yiddish theatre, and then all of...
April 28, 1953, New York, N.Y., U.S. (aged 95) Sara Adler (born 1858, Odessa, Russia—died April 28, 1953, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was a Russian-born American actress, one of the most celebrated figures in the American Yiddish theatre. Sara Levitzky was born of a well-to-do Jewish family.
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Jacob Pavlovitch Adler (1855-1926) was one of America's foremost Yiddish actors. Born in Odessa, now located within the borders of the Ukraine, Adler was first a Russian actor and starred in the Yiddish theatre in Odessa, then in London, and finally in New York City.
