Sara Adler

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Sara Adler (née Levitskaya; changed to Lewis; Russian: Сара Левицка Адлер; Yiddish: שרה לעוויטסק אַדלער; May 26, 1858 – April 28, 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. 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. 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 and Batsheva in Gordin's The Homeless. She introduced "realism" in acting before it became an American movement.

Career

1. 1858
   Birth