Yiddish Theatre and Jacob P. Adler

Author: Lulla A. Rosenfeld
Publisher: Shapolsky Publishers

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Product Description
The Yiddish Theatre and Jacob P. Adler is both a biography of the author's grandfather, the renowned Jacob P. Adler, and a history of the Yiddish Theatre.

Covering the tumultuous events of a century, the book follows the career of Adler and his fellow actors through Eastern Europe, their years of struggle in London, and their ultimate triumph in America, where Yiddish theatre reached its height and took its place in American cultural history.

A masterpiece...brings back a world that would have been lost forever...

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

A book for anyone who has ever who has ever found joy in any theatre
- The New York Times

The entire cast is volatile, passionate, reckless, intense and glamorous - as hugely entertaining offstage as on.
- The New Yorker

About the Author
Lulla Adler Rosenfeld has acted in the Yiddish theatre, the American theatre, and in films. She has written for radio, television and motion pictures. This book, the product of many years of research, was her first major literary effort.

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