Dinah Shtettin

Dinah Shtettin (akas: Dina Stettin and Dinah Feinman (דיינע פיינמאן); died 1946) was an English Yiddish theater actress. She was the second wife of Jacob Adler, with whom she had a daughter, Celia Adler, in 1889.

Early life Dinah Shtettin was born in Poland to strict Orthodox Jewish parents. As a young child, her family moved to London. She began her theatrical career as a teenager in the chorus of Israel Grodner's London troupe in the mid-1880s, eventually winning small parts and joining the troupe when the Grodners went to Paris. When she was about sixteen, she met Jacob Adler, then a widower, who took a liking to her. At this time, he was in a relationship with Jenny Kaiser, with whom he had become romantically involved while still married to his first wife, Sonya. Adler and Kaiser had a son, Charles. alt=Page reading Windsor Theater at the top, followed by Yiddish text. On the right is an image of a woman, and on the left is an image of a man. Advertisement for Joseph Lateiner's play Kidesh Hashem starring Sigmund and Dinah Feinman. Shtettin's father disapproved of both Adler and the theater, but did not restrict his daughter's wishes. He stated, "Let it be a divorce tomorrow, but marriage it must be!" She travelled back to London to act to great popularity; in 1909, a woman was crushed to death in the effort to get the best seats to see her at the London Pavilion. Shtettin and Feinman had another daughter, actress Lillie (Lili) Feinman, who married Yiddish actor Ludwig Satz. Siegmund Feinman died in 1909.

Stage career Shtettin's New York debut was in the role of Fanya, the villain's daughter, in Jacob Gordin's Siberia (1892). Commercially unsuccessful at the time, this first play of Gordin's is now considered a landmark in the evolution of Yiddish theater.