Mapping Urban Cafés and Modern Jewish CultureMain MenuAbout the ProjectSholem Aleichem and Menakhem Mendel travelsThe "Demolished Literature" of Karl Kraus' ViennaSeeing into the Lower East Side CafésOdessa CafesOdessaZoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78eIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8
Adah Isaacs Menken
1media/Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Menken,_Mazeppa,_TCS_19.jpg2018-03-27T17:51:10-07:00Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78e197498image_header2018-07-16T16:03:54-07:00uncertainJune 15, 1835August 10, 1868180Paris, FranceIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868) was an American actress and poet, internationally famous for her starring role in the equestrian melodrama Mazeppa, in which she was stripped on stage to a flesh-colored body stocking. Adah lead a glamorous and spectacular life as a celebrity, often blurring the line between performance and reality. Fervently Jewish in adulthood, Adah once said of her faith that
"Through that pure and simple religion I have found greatest comfort and blessing.”