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Lulla Adler Rosenfeld has warm memories about her famous ancestors
— the Adlers.

hear about Yiddish theater
dying off, because, to a degree,
it's true," says Rosenfled.
"People today don't have an
image of Yiddish theater that
does it justice. They think of
the shund theater," a type of
exaggerated, outlandish pro-
duction. "The theater I
remember, the Adler tradi-
tion, was a big artistic
theater, a grand theater."
Certainly, she says, she
knows of the revived interest
in Yiddish theater today.
"People want it very badly.
Who knows? Maybe it can
happen again."
But Rosenfeld is not about
to bet her last Sholom
Aleichem book on it. "There
are not that many people who
speak the language. While
young people are learning
Yiddish, it is hard to have a
theater that you learn in
school."
What Rosenfeld has learn-
ed is that some things never
die — memories prevent that.
"What stands out in my life
— I have flashes of my grand-
father and my grandmother
— a great actress also, Sara.
"What I remember most is
being in the theater and hav-
ing the sense of everyone —
the audience and the actors —
having a wonderful secret
together. A sense of joy."
But then, being an Adler
was a constant joy. "As the
Adlers got famous, their

children and grandchildren
got famous," she says.
"We were a family of excep-
tional gifts," says this woman
of stage presence without any
sense of bravura. "Even if one
weren't an actor, one would be
a raconteur or a writer."
Some joys don't last forever.
She remembers seeing a Yid-
dish show in New York
recently. "I walked in and

Certainly, she
says, she knows of
the revived
interest in Yiddish
theater today.
"People want it
very badly. Who
knows? Maybe it
can happen again."

from the lobby I heard so-
meone do a run on his
trumpet. I got that sense of
excitement I always used to
get."
The Adlers have done it all.
But if she had it to do all over
again, Rosenfeld admits, "I
would have changed all my
life. I would have done the
same things, but better."
One thing life could not
have improved on, she says
proudly. "I would never have
taken away being a part of my
family."

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FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1989