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The memoir of the great Yiddish actor, translated for the first time into English more than seventy years after its writing, recreates the remarkable world of the early twentieth-century theater through the life and times of one of the finest actors of the era. 17,500 first printing.
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Lulla Rosenfeld is the author of a history of the Yiddish theater. She lived in New York City until her death in 1999.
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y. 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. <br><br>"The man's size -- I do not refer to his physique -- imposed a sense of peril," Harold Clurman said of Jacob Adler. "Grandeur always inspires a certain shudder at life's immeasurable mystery and might."<br><br>Adler's astonishing career as an actor took him from tsarist Russia in the late 1800s to London, and to New York at the turn of the century, where he was applauded and lionized (he was called Nesher Hagodel, "The Great Eagle") in role after role. We see Adler's powerful and revolutionary portrayal of Shylock; his Yiddish King Lear; his Uriel Acosta, from the Yiddish drama set in Spain under the Spanish Inq
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A Life on the Stage
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. NEW YORK: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($30.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards, with gilt spine lettering. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, xxiv + 403 pages, with black-and-white illustrations and index. Translated from the Yiddish by Lulla Rosenfeld, with an introduction by Stella Adler. A LIFE ON THE STAGE: A MEMOIR recounts the extraordinary life and career of Jacob Adler (1855-1926), one of the great figures of the Yiddish theater in America and Europe. Rich with theatrical history and cultural insight, the memoir offers an intimate portrait of the vibrant Jewish stage and Adler's family legacy, which shaped generations of American acting and drama. Artikel-Nr. Nofiction-Sale-Adler
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