T. was born on 12 April 1890 in Unieva, Kalish Gubernia, Poland; when she was young she became an orphan and was raised by her grandfather. She learned in a Polish school, then in a cheder. Lager she traveled to Lodz. There she worked in a business and participated in "amateur" productions, where she acted as "Manka" in Asch's "Got fun nekome (God of Vengeance)" (Dir. -- Y. Oskar), and "Gitele" in Gordin's "Der yidisher kenig lir (The Jewish King Lear)", because it was the proprietor who refused
her [stand=shtel]? and she was taken in to act professionally in Yiddish vaudeville theatres, then with various itinerant troupes, together with her husband.
 

Sh. E. from Yehoshua Tufman..