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Sara Adler


 

Sara Adler (1858April 28, 1953) was a Ukrainian Jewish actress in Yiddish theater who made her career mainly in the United States. She was the wife of Jacob Adler and the mother of Stella and Luther Adler. The most famous of her 300 or so leading roles was the redeemed prostitute Katusha Maslova in Jacob Gordin's play based on Tolstoy's Resurrection.

References

  • Adler, Jacob, A Life on the Stage: A Memoir, translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, ISBN 067941351. 266, passim.
  • Adler, Sara, on the Encyclopędia Britannica Women in American History site. Retrieved February 22, 2005.