H. was born in 1892 in Tarnow, Galicia, to Chasidic parents.

Until the age of fourteen he learned from a rabbi and foreign(?) topics -- from a teacher.

He received a request to "see the world" and went away to Vienna, where he worked by day in a manufacturing business, and in the evening he was active in a singing union.

In 1909 he came to America and under the influence of Moshe Richter he performed in a dramatic club, debuting in Barukh Schorr's "Shmshun khgbur". A short time later he toured with a professional troupe across America, and in 1918 became a member in the Actors Union.

He acted for several seasons in Newark's Yiddish theatre and in the New York Lyric and Prospect Theatres, in 1928-9 in Toronto , and in 1929-30 in the Bronx's McKinley Square Theatre.

Sh. E.