- Menken, Adah Isaacs
- (1835-68)American actress. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, she achieved notoriety for her role in Mazeppa, a dramatization of Byron's poem.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
Menken, Adah Isaacs
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