People - Jacob P Adler (1855-1926)

Adler was born in Odessa in 1855 and started his theatre career in 1879, touring with Abraham Goldfaden’s theatre company. Following the ban on Yiddish performance in the Russian Empire in 1883, Adler migrated to London. He was a popular performer at the newly-built Hebrew Dramatic Club in Princes Street, but following its closure in 1887 he left for the United States. He achieved great success there, but never forgot his time in London and from 1901 until the 1920s made regular guest appearances at the Standard Theatre and the Pavilion.