L. was born on 5 May 1894 in
Biala Podlaska, Poland. Her father was a tailor. As a
child of one-and-a-half years, she went with her family
over to Warsaw, where she studied in a folkshul and
learned
Yiddish with a rabbi. In her early youth she became a
worker with a straw peddler.
At twelve years she joined
Feinstein's Yiddish children's troupe, where she debuted
as "Khasya di yesoyme (Chasia the Orphan)" and she
remained there to act for two years. After a short break
she joined in with Zhitomirsky's troupe, with whom she
toured for two years across Russia, then she acted with
small provincial troupes, later with Sabsey in Odessa
and with Libert-Zaslavsky across Russia.
In 1917 she came to Poland
together with her husband, the actor Chaim Sandler, and
traveled around across the Polish province, until she
joined in 1922 Kaminski's theatre in Warsaw. Soon
thereafter she became engaged to London to Joseph
Kessler, where she acted for two seasons under the name
Sandler, then six months in South Africa, one year in
Paris, several months in Belgium, and Germany and again
back to Poland, where she acted for four years in "Sambatyon,"
then again one season in London's Pavilion Theatre
(Director -- Zusman) and after a short tour across
Western Europe she came back to Poland, where she acted
in 1932 in a members troupe in Warsaw's Skala Theatre
and then in Warsaw's Pavilion Theatre (Director -- Chaim
Sandler). |
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