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- ↑ As a young divorcee, she married on April 3, 1858 in Livingston, Texas to Alexander Isaac Menken, a Jewish theatrical musician from Cincinnati, Ohio. He became her agent. Although she never formally converted to Judaism, she claimed the faith often stating that she was born Jewish. She published a number of poems in the “Cincinnati Israelite.” Her husband's family did not care for her theatrical career and her smoking cigarettes in public, thus her marriage to Menken was soon dissolved by a rabbinical diploma, which was not legal as she learned after marrying another man. She continued to used Menken as her stage name.
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