A. was born on 19 August
1894 in Terespol, Siedlce Gubernia, Poland. His parents,
who were in business, moved themselves over to Warsaw.
There he completed the two classes of the Russian
General Vasilevsky private gymnasium, and when he
wandered off to Constantinople, he set still pursued his
education until the sixth class of a French school of
commerce.
In 1912 he entered into
Leopold Kaner's Yiddish troupe in Constantinople, in
1913 he traveled with a tour across the Orient with a
German operetta troupe with Fritzi Arco [without the
top=an der shpits]. In 1914 he was sent out as a lower
Russian to Odessa, where he became engaged in
Guzik's troupe, which had to however, due to the ban on
Yiddish, act in the repertoire of Goldfaden, Gordin,
Richter and Libin in Russian.
In 1915 he entered into
Zaslavsky's troupe, which performed in Russian. At the
end of 1916 he began to act in the Russian small arts
troupe of Zeliener-vert. After the revolution he
returned back to Zaslavsky's troupe, which performed
already in Yiddish, and from there in other Yiddish
troupes, at the end of 1919 A. traveled back to
Constantinople, where he acted with a group of Yiddish
actors, Flichtlinge of Russia. In 1921 he acted in
Athens, Greece, with the film society "Palace Film" in
the films "Der groyser umbakanter" ("Lord Lister"), "Di
libe fun a tsigeynerin" ("Astor"). |
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