F. was born in 1883 in the village Rzheka, Novo Radomsko region, Poland, by Chasidic parents.

He learned in a cheder and later as a "auto-didact (self-taught student)".

In 1904 he began to act with "amateurs" in Lodz, where his family had earlier moved to.

During the Russo-Japanese War, he helped his parents provide knitwear for the Russian army, [kleybt on] a little money and bought (together with a friend/member) needed costumes and wigs, and ge went away with the "amateurs" and several professional actors across the Polish province. Later he went around with a professional troupe and toured with them throughout Russia.

After the pogrom in Odessa, he left Russia and went to Germany and Austria, most of the time in the [kur-erter], where he, with several others, acted in Yiddish vaudeville.

In 1914 he was the assistant regisseur for Adler-Sieratsky and the Lodz Skala Theatre and Warsaw Kaminski Theatre.

On 26 February 1915 F., mentally ill, passed away in Lodz.

M. E. from his brother Avraham Fishman.

Zalmen Zylbercweig -- "Hintern forhang", Vilna, 1928, p. 169.