Born on 24 March 1880 in Odessa, Ukraine.

His father was a businessman who immigrated to America. Here G. completed public school.

As a youth he was a newspaper seller and "matured" around the theatre.

In 1895 he traveled for the first time to Baltimore to work for Aba Schoengold, and afterwards he acted with Gabel.

In 1919 G. left the Yiddish stage and he dedicated himself to film. G. as a polished actor was in "Ey End Es" film company, and henceforth there came the possibility of him becoming the first director of a Yiddish lebnsbilds "Mendl beylis", "Yizkhor" by Sandler (filmed in Vienna with the New York Yiddish Art Theatre), "East and West" with Molly Picon, and "Ist seyd sadie".

In November 1929, G. directed the first Yiddish "talkie" (talking film), "Ed mti (Until When)" with Berta Gerstin, Lazar Freed et al.

G.'s wife, Betty Gertner-Goldin, is a Yiddish actress and a film actress.
 

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