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Sara Adler

1858 - 1953

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Sara Adler (née Levitskaya, some sources give Levitsky or Levitzky, changed to Lewis; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Sara Adler is the 6,479th most popular actor (down from 4,796th in 2024). (down from 3,967th in 2019)

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Among actors, Sara Adler ranks 6,478 out of 13,578. Before her are Tanja Ribič, Yoshiko Tanaka, Estelle Reiner, Uwe Ochsenknecht, and Pamela Bellwood. After her are Roger Dumas, Keegan-Michael Key, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Eleanor Boardman, C. Thomas Howell, David Clennon, and Regina King.

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Among people born in 1858, Sara Adler ranks 136. Before her are Joseph Thomson, George Washington Goethals, Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Joseph DeCamp, Edgeworth David, and Alfred Capus. After her are José Luis Tamayo, Anna J. Cooper, Maurice Prendergast, Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, Rosa Smith Eigenmann, and Katharine Drexel. Among people deceased in 1953, Sara Adler ranks 183. Before her are Rudolph Schindler, Robert Stangland, James Scullin, Francis Ford, Delfo Bellini, and Fred M. Vinson. After her are Ethel Muckelt, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Thomas Thorstensen, Alan Curtis, Josef Ternström, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

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