Her published translations of Glanz and Allegro furiozo by Ida Boy-Ed appeared in Politika in 1906 and 1907 and were the first translations of Boy-Ed's work. The Prosvetni pregled No. 1, released "On reading", in 1909, for which she won an award. In the same year, she began studies in architecture in Belgrade, leaving after a semester. From 1909 through 1913, she studied Serbian and French literature at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade. In 1909 and in 1912–14, she published translations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ludwig Thoma, Paul-Louis Hervier, Maurice Barrès, Heinrich Heine, Gustave Flaubert, and Oscar Wilde; during the same period, she published the original works of Victor Hugo, as well as literary and theater reviews. At the end of 1913, Lebl-Albala began teaching at the First Women's Gymnasium. From 1914 until 1918, Lebl-Albala published in the journals Odjek , Književni jug , and Moderna žena ; she was in Switzerland 1917–18. Lebl-Albala was back in Belgrade in 1918–39. She became a professor in the Second Girls Gymnasium in 1920. She married David Albala, a physician, Zionist leader and president of Belgrade's Sephardi community on March 14 of that year at the Sephardic Synagogue. They had a daughter, Jelena Albala Gojić in 1925. A feminist, she became a member of the Drustvo za prosvećivanje žene i zaštitu njenih prava in 1925, she was also active in Zionist youth work. Other memberships included the Management Association of Professors and PEN Club. She was the first president of the UUOZ, and served in that role for eight years. A literature theoretician, from 1919 through 1939, Lebl-Albala wrote essays, literary discussions, criticism, reviews, stories, travel articles about women and youth, translations and other contributions which were published in newspapers and journals; some of these were, Revue Yougoslave, Misao, Ženski pokret, Prosvetni glasnik, SKG, Prilozi, LMS, Strani pregled, Politika, Javnost, Književni jug, Glasnik jugoslovenskog ženskog saveza, Beogradske opštinske novine, Južni pregled, Krug, Naša stvarnost, Život i rad, Žena danas, and Vidici. She wrote discussions and reviews of the works of Dositej Obradović, Njegoš, Ljubomir Nenadović, Jovan Skerlić, Borisav Stanković, Branislav Nušić, Bogdan Popović, Jovan Sterija Popović, Jovan Dučić, Stanislav Vinaver, as well as Heine, Hugo, Herman Hesse, A. Smedlej, and Germaine de Staël. Her work appeared in a number of publications, including Ljubomir Nenadović's, Odabrane strane, Božidar Knežević's, Misli, Bulletin of the Association of University-Educated Women, L'Oeuvre litteraire des femmes yougoslaves, in which he wrote the preface and introduction of individual chapters, as well as Monahinja Jefimija. In 1937, she became the editor of Glasnik Jugoslovenskog ženskog saveza. In 1940, she moved to Washington, D.C., joining her husband at the Yugoslav Embassy. She wrote for the Yugoslav News Bulletin and in Pittsburgh newspapers. After her husband's death in 1942, Lebl-Albala and her daughter settled in New York City. Lebl-Albala returned to Belgrade in 1945, and was mentioned in the 1947 edition of the Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature in the section on Serbian writers. She did translation work for Metro Goldwyn Meyer and Columbia Pictures during this time. In 1947, she made Aliyah with the first group of emigrants for Israel, after which, she visited Rome and Windsor, Ontario, Canada, before emigrating to the US where she lived with her daughter in Los Angeles, California. She died there in 1967. She is mentioned in Encyclopaedia Hebraica, Jewish Almanac, and the Bulletin of the Association of Yugoslav Jews in the United States. Published in 2005, Tako je nekad bilo is a compilation book of Lebl-Albala's memories.
Selected works
1930, Razvoj universitetskog obrazovanja naših žena
1923; 1930, Teorija književnosti i analiza pismenih sastava za srednje i stručne škole
1932, Gertruda
1939, Deset godina rada Udruženja univerzitetski obrazovanih žena u Jugoslaviji: 1928-1938
