Born in Warsaw, Poland. His father was a Yiddish actor, and soon thereafter disappeared. He completed a "TSISHO" school. Ida Kaminska had to look at him almost instantaneously. His entire family was connected with Yiddish theatre: Yakov Mandelblit, Perele Urich, Gustave Berger (a Lemberger). for a trade he was a publisher and worked in the Warsaw "Folks-tsaytung."

Nathan Minsky writes about him:

"...Motl Kutsik ... until his sixteen year actually lived as an aygn child of Yiddish theatre and became scrutinized from all the Yiddish actors in Warsaw.

In an entire series of plays from famous Yiddish troupes, he performed in children's roles. He played with Ida Kaminska, Ruth Turkow, Yakov Mandelblit and Pearl Urich.

Motele completed a TSISHO school. To a sium-hsfr had every TSISHO school in Warsaw perform the famous play, "Tom Sawyer," with Motele as "Sam." The theatre reviewer of the Yiddish, and also Polish press, had written later that with mastery performed for the role, Motele had obtained a very important level, actually of a wonder-child."

After completing the TSISHO school, Motele learned the profession of a Yiddish advertising composer [anonsn-zetser], where he also showed his gifts, because he was a very good mathematician. His figures and decorations, created from a lead