thumb|Sonya Oberlander Adler, Yiddish player. 1862-1884.
Sophia "Sonya" Adler (; – 1886), also known by her early stage name Sonya Michelson, was a Russian actress who was one of the first women to perform in Yiddish theater in Imperial Russia. Later she became the first wife of actor Jacob Adler, with whom she relocated to London in 1883, after Yiddish theater was banned in Russia.
Life
Sophia Oberlander was born to a Jewish family in Odessa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), in 1859,
After a few more months of continuing to perform in Łódź and Zhytomyr, Sonya returned to her parents' house in Odessa 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.
References
Sources
- Adler, Jacob, A Life on the Stage: A Memoir, translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999,