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Over the course of his literary career, Adler wrote a dozen books, 18,000 poems, numerous plays, and over 30,000 humorous articles. Many of his works were translated into German, Polish, Hungarian, Hebrew, and
English. One of his stories, "Why Doesn't Hellil Move," was translated into Italian by
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and her husband Mendl, Moyshe
Kapoyer, and Peyshe the Farmer, who became household names in Yiddish-speaking American households and inspired a number of songs and stage routines. He wrote a number of poems that were nostalgic for the old country. The poems were collected in his first volume
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in 1897, when he contributed two short workers' poems under the name Nesher. Over the next several decades, he contributed publications to 54 different magazines and newspapers, including
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In 1896, Adler married Celia
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pseudonym B. Kovner. He wrote a number of popular humorous characters like
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