fifteen hundred people attended her funeral, considered a disappointing turnout, considering her status in the jewish community. she had come to be seen as "a relic of the theatrical past, with a manner too romantic and grand even for the yiddish stage", soyer notes. "but, nevertheless, in the prime of her career at the beginning of the twentieth century, kalich played an important role in efforts to improve the artistic standards of the yiddish theater, whose status she also helped to raise with her success with english-speaking audiences."