A life on the stage
Subtitle: a memoir
By: by Jacob Adler ; translated, edited, and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld ; with an introduction by Stella Adler.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Adler, Jacob P., 1855-1926.; Jewish actors -- United States -- Biography.; Actors -- United States -- Biography.; Theater, Yiddish -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "A lost document of theatrical history written more than seven decades ago is now translated for the first time into English - the autobiography of the great Yiddish actor Jacob Adler. It is, as well, a history of the Yiddish theater - for which Adler himself was almost single-handedly responsible - in Russia, England, and the United States."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Serialized 1916 to 1919 in the Yiddish newspaper Di Ṿarhayṭ.
Includes index.