Dinah Shtettin

Dinah Shtettin (a.k.a. Dina Stettin and Dinah Feinman (דיינע פיינמאן); c. 1869-1946) was an English Yiddish theater actress. Shtettin was the second wife of Jacob Adler, with whom she had a daughter, Celia Adler, in 1889. Early life Dinah 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 ("Jennya") Kaiser, whom he had become romantically involved with while his first wife, Sonya, was still alive. Adler and Kaiser had a son, Charles.