For Shylock, however, the desired climax was to refuse the pound of flesh with a gesture of divine compassion. There were even mentions in the English-language press. Besides the abovementioned "I had no voice" remark, see Stefan Kanfer. The entries for Sara Adler (, "Jerry Adler Is In Transitions -- And 'Transparent, "The Sunshine Boys lights up Connecticut stage…with two veteran Jewish actors", "Yiddish Shylock Viewed From Ghetto Standpoint", "The Great Eagle: great Yiddish actor-legend, Jacob Adler", "The Jacob P. Adler Family Photograph Collection, 1870s–1930s, Finding Aid", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacob_Pavlovich_Adler&oldid=981967624, Ukrainian-Jewish emigrants to the United Kingdom, Internet Broadway Database person ID different from Wikidata, Internet Broadway Database person ID same as Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 5 October 2020, at 12:52. [3][72], Adler writes vividly and with humor. Adler followed with equally successful productions of Gordin's dramatization of Tolstoy's Resurrection and the Gordin original The Homeless. If someday I return to the Yiddish theater, let me at least not be so ignorant.
In this production, Adler spoke his lines in Yiddish while the rest of the cast spoke in English. I thank you Shmendrick—my beloved—my own. He soon got bored with boxing, but not with his new connections to the "sons of rich fathers, attorneys without diplomas", etc. They played in Philadelphia and Chicago, where word arrived of an opportunity to take over Poole's, Heine having moved on to the Thalia. Spoke Yiddish fluently and often made appearances with his parents at a young age. [1][6] His last public appearance was in May 2008 at Carnegie Hall, where he recreated several numbers that evening in a gala celebration for the New York Festival of Song.
In February 2007, he and London had their first child together, Jacob Hayden Adler. His mother, née Hessye Halperin, was a tall, beautiful woman, originally from a wealthy family in Berdichev. Yet even as I cursed and condemned, the tears rose. The arrival of professional Yiddish actors from Russia worked great changes, bringing Yiddish theater in London to a new level and allowing a modest professionalism, though never at much more than a poverty wage. [46], One of Adler's roles from this period was as the villain Franz Moore in Herman Fiedler's adaptation of Schiller's The Robbers, which introduced Schiller into Yiddish theater.
The Oberlanders managed to start a restaurant; he and Keni Liptzin headed to New York that autumn, where she managed to sign on at the Romanian Opera House; failing to find a similar situation for himself, he returned to London, drawn back to the charms of both Dinah and Jennya.
[44], Playing to small audiences, on tiny stages, in communal troupes where all but the stars had day jobs, and playing only Saturday and Sunday (the pious London Jews would never have tolerated Friday performances), Adler focused on serious theater like never before. His last public appearance was in May 2008 at Carnegie Hall, where he recreated several numbers that evening in a gala celebration for the New York Festival of Song. When this particular troupe broke up, the Adlers were among the few players to remain with Rosenberg to form a new one that included the actress who later became famous under the name of Keni Liptzin. 3: In later … Adler wrote them to urge them to bring their troupe to Odessa. Adler's memoir acknowledges many people who helped him out in various ways. Adler made his stage debut at an early age, appearing with his parents. [4][5] He became a star in Yiddish theater in London, and in 1889, on his second voyage to the United States, he settled in New York City. [2][5] His shows paid tribute to the performers who had shaped his own style including Danny Kaye, Sammy Davis, Jr., Red Buttons, Cab Calloway and Jimmy Durante, among others. "[75], "Jacob Adler" redirects here. [27], Adler wrote in his memoir that the passion of his future wife Sonya Oberlander (and of her family) for theater, and their vision of what Yiddish theater could become, kept him in the profession despite his uncle's view. [9], Adler grew up with one foot in a traditional Jewish world and one in a more modern, European one. [61], Adler was married three times, first to Sophia (Sonya) Oberlander (died 1886), then to Dinah Shtettin (m. 1887- divorced.
Adler fell out with Heine, initially over business; at this time Heine's marriage was also falling apart, and Sara Heine would eventually become Sara Adler. Rosenberg, never the most ethical of men, withdrew his troupe from Odessa to tour the hinterland. [45], By November 1885, Adler had a theatrical club of his own, the Princes Street Club, No. He overstayed his leave, lost his government post, and the decision to become a full-time actor was effectively made for him. The piety of the London Jews was such that they had to use an (unplayable) cardboard ram's horn so as to avoid blasphemy.
In Whitechapel, the center of Jewish London at that time, he encountered extremes of poverty that he describes as exceeding any he had ever seen in Russia or would ever see in New York. Bruce Adler (November 27, 1944 – July 25, 2008)[1] was an American Broadway actor.
[36], The financial consequences of the collapse of their company were mitigated by a series of three benefit performances, in coordination with the local Russian-language theater company. [63] Abram's son Allen Adler (1916–1964) was, among other things, the screenwriter of Forbidden Planet. In a review of Adler's one-man show Song and Dance Man, The New York Times critic Richard F. Shepard wrote, "What is there that this man can't do? Adler's father Feivel (Pavel) Abramovitch Adler was a (rather unsuccessful) grain merchant. These would soon come in handy for smoothing over certain problems of a young and unlicensed theater troupe when Rosenberg and Spivakofsky returned from Romania, penniless because the end of the war had meant the collapse of Yiddish theater in the provinces, and ready to start a troupe in Odessa. Goldfaden's own account says he came there at the urging of his father; Adler attributes it to Rosenberg and Spivakovsky's "enemies". Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, November 27, 1944, New York City, New York, United States, July 25, 2008, Davie, Florida, United States. "[74], In a small essay, "Shmendrick, My Mephistopheles", one of the last passages he wrote, Adler describes the last time he saw Shmendrick played, at a memorial for Goldfaden in 1912. There they presented generally serious theater to audiences of about 150. [42], At this time, Yiddish theater in London meant amateur clubs.
1891) and finally to actress Sara Adler (previously Sara Heine) (m. 1891), who survived him by over 25 years. February 14th, 2007, at age 62, he became a father with the birth of Jacob Hayden Adler.
Still, under this same Goldfaden regime he had his first taste of real stardom when people in Chişinău camped in the courtyards awaiting performances. (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Broadway (1987), Rumors (1988), Those Were The Days (1991), where he won the Drama Desk Award,[4] and Crazy for You (1992). He was selected (apparently on little more than his appearance) by Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshersky to work at a German hospital in Bender, Moldova, dealing mainly with typhus patients. They thought they had found "a quiet corner" of the Russian Empire in which "to make a bit of a livelihood", but in fact Hartenstein was simply running through his money.
He recruited Jacob Gordin, already a well-respected novelist and intellectual, recently arrived in New York and eking out a living as a journalist at the Arbeiter Zeitung, precursor to The Forward. Adler decided to perform Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness, and decided that he would do his own translation from Russian to Yiddish.
"[25], Lulla Rosenfeld's remark that Adler "...rel[ied] entirely on classics and translations of modern European plays"[21] does not quite tell the whole story.
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[Adler 1999] pp.284–299. In Adler's own words, "Shylock from the first was governed by pride rather than revenge. A good dancer, he became part of a crowd of young toughs who regularly crashed wedding parties. This is the Shylock I have tried to show.
In 1924, he was well enough to perform in the title role of a revival of Gordin's The Stranger, inspired by Tennyson's "Enoch Arden": the character is "a sick and broken man", so the Adler was able to integrate his own physical weakness into the portrayal. Subscribe Now. [3] He continued to appear in Yiddish theatre throughout his teens, also appearing in mainstream American theatre as his parents made a similar "crossover," most notably appearing in productions of Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn. In New York, they promptly discovered that neither Mogulesko and Finkel at the Romanian Opera House nor Maurice Heine at the Oriental Theater had any use for them. 5: Nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) two years in a row: in 1991 for "Those Were the Days" and in 1992 for "Crazy for You." The 1925 portion gives a comparably detailed picture of his time in London,[72] although with some evasions around the relative timing of his relationships with his wife Sonya and with Jennya Kaiser and Dinah Shtettin. [60], In 1919–1920, Adler, despite his own socialist politics, found himself in a labor dispute with the Hebrew Actors' Union; he played that season in London rather than New York. 6: He was the son of Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler In the English-language book of these memoirs, Rosenfeld attempts to fill the gaps with her own commentary.
However, he returned to Odessa thinking that he would most likely leave theater behind. They were in Riga in August 1883 when the news arrived that a total ban was about to be placed on Yiddish theater in Russia.
Bruce Adler died of liver cancer at age 63 on July 25, 2008.
He tried to get Rosenberg to come with them to London, but Rosenberg would not budge. The play was a great success, the first successful production of a Tolstoy play in the U.S., and Thomashefsky was so obviously happy for Adler that their friendship was renewed. Adler did not doubt that the rabbi was glad to see Yiddish actors leaving London. [73] It contains only a relatively fragmentary description of his New York career. Around this time Lincoln Steffens wrote a piece saying that Yiddish theater in New York had eclipsed English-language theater in quality. On one hand, he was also responsible for recruiting the Yiddish theater's first naturalistic playwright, Jacob Gordin, and he scored a great triumph in the title role of Gordin's Der Yiddisher King Lear (The Jewish King Lear), set in 19th-century Russia.
[66], He and Sara had six children: the well-known actors Luther (1903–1984) and Stella Adler (1901–1992) and the lesser-known actors Jay (1896–1978), Frances, Julia, and Florence. [52], Renaming Poole's as the Union Theater, Adler attempted to produce the most serious Yiddish-language theater New York had yet seen in the Yiddish Theater District, with plays such as Scribe's La Juive, Zolotkev's Samson the Great, and Sinckievich's Quo Vadis. In contrast, "Adler scorned justification. [28], His success in the role was cut short by the news that Goldfaden, whose plays they were using without permission, was coming with his troupe to Odessa. "[10] His education was irregular: as the family fortunes rose and fell, he would be sent to cheder (Jewish religious school) or to a Russian language county school, pulled out of school entirely, or have a private tutor for a few months. Sonya died from an infection contracted while giving birth to their son Abram in 1886. Nathan Marcus Adler viewed Yiddish as a "jargon" that existed at the expense of both liturgical Hebrew and the English necessary for upward mobility, and his Orthodox Judaism "could not endure so much as a blessing given on stage, for such a blessing would be given in vain"; further, he was afraid that the portrayals of Jews on stage would give aid and comfort to their enemies.
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