The Living Corpse
This golden age was not to last. The years 1905–1908 saw half a million new Jewish immigrants to New York, and once again the largest audience for Yiddish theater was for lighter fare. Adler hung on, but the Thomashefskys were making a fortune at the Thalia; plays with titles like "Minke the Servant Girl" were far outdrawing fare like Gordin's "Dementia Americana" (1909). It would be 1911 before Adler scored another major success, this time with Tolstoy's "The Living Corpse" (also known as "Redemption"), translated into Yiddish by Leon Kobrin.