Word: pavlowich
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...stage as they were in the family of Adlers -"the Barrymores of Jewry"-who were performing the piece. Gathered together for the first time on one stage, the cast was all-Adler; seven of the nine sons and daughters and one son-in-law of the late great Jacob Pavlowich Adler. Born in Odessa, Russia, in 1855, Jacob Adler became successively public official, journalist, actor in a barnstorming Jewish troupe. When he was 30 he migrated to the U. S., formed the first stock company to devote itself to serious Yiddish drama. He discovered Playwright Jacob Gordin, had him write...
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