Adler, Julius
November 15, 1880–
Born in Bialystok, Poland. He became an actor in 1891. In 1904 he came to the United States.
Aside from articles about Yiddish theater, he wrote or adapted plays that were performed, such as: Dorflibe (Village Love), Dos Tsveyte Vayb (The Second Wife), Di Mume Gnendl (Aunt Gnendl), and Di Sheyne Berta (Beautiful Bertha).
He translated a play by Gabriela Zapolska, August Strindberg’s The Father, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, Emmerich Kalman’s operetta Die Csárdásfürstin, and the drama The Friend from Levitina (?).
Zilbertsvayg translated and adapted for the Yiddish stage the play of Alexandre Dumas (father) Kin oder Zhenye un Laydenshaft : Pyese in 5 Akten (orig.: Kean, ou Desordre et Genie [Kean or Genius and the Libertine])/ A. Dyuma (foter) ; iberzetst un bearbayt oyf yudish durkh Zalmen Zilbertsvayg mit a forvort fun Y. Uger. (Lodz : Ferlag Teatr un Kunst, 1913), 100 pp., portr.
There are two portraits in the book: The portrait of Julius Adler as actor portraying Kean, dressed as a sailor is on the cover.
The portrait of Edmund Kean (1787-1833) the British stage actor, the prototype of the main character illustrates the preface by Yeshaye Uger.
Source: Z. Zilbertsvayg, Teater-Leksikon, p. 1.
Re: Levitina
Левитина, Софья Марковна = Levitina Sof'ya Markovna 1891-1957.
Drama The Friend (orig.: Товарищ) in 5 acts (10 sciens). In Russian was published in Kharkov in 1928 and 1934.