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22: 119: 293:, Sonya returned to her parents' house in Odesa to give birth to her daughter Rivkah (Rebecca), who later died in London at the age of 3. Sonya, too, died in London, from an infection contracted while giving birth to her second child, Abram ("Abe") Adler, in 1886 at age 27. 214:", and that her (and her family's) passion for theater, and their vision of what Yiddish theater could become, kept him in the profession through the difficult early years of his career as an actor. Her debut as a professional actress (Odesa, 1878) was in the title role of 239:, but she pulled strings so that Jacob Adler, to whom she was already close at the time, would get the role. The next few years of theatrical touring had their ups and downs; initially, so did her relationship with Adler, but they married in 254:. The mourning for the tsar meant there would be no performances in the capital; in addition the political climate of Russia turned sharply against the Jews. Goldfaden's troupe soldiered on for a time—to 313: 250:
was calamitous for the Jews of Russia, for Yiddish theater, and for the Adlers. At that time, the Adlers were in Goldfaden's troupe, and had been expecting soon to play in
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theater troupe and partly by making judicious use of the money the Adlers had won in court from Goldfaden.
39: 54: 32: 278:. The troupe managed to avoid bodily harm by partly by convincing the rioters that they were a 247: 380: 186:). Jacob Adler, in his memoir, remarks that at the time he met her, she was a student at the 156: 395: 8: 385: 79: 356: 236: 223: 215: 207: 251: 228: 195: 187: 232: 203: 199: 152: 148: 369: 211: 355:, translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, 286: 206:. He adds that "like all the best young people of the day" she was a 147:, was a Russian actress who was one of the first women to perform in 21: 290: 259: 219: 179: 263: 240: 191: 175: 279: 275: 271: 267: 183: 160: 118: 255: 171: 167: 314:"Jacob P Adler Family Photograph Collection 1870s-1930s" 143:; c. 1862 – 1886), also known by her early stage name 262:
where they played mainly to Russian soldiers, and to
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in 1883, after Yiddish theater was banned in Russia.
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After a few more months of continuing to perform in
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Yiddish theater
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