L. was born in 1889 in Odessa, Ukraine. Her father was a master tailor. L.'s brothers had sung in the synagogue chorus with Cantor Bakhman and used to arrange for each Shabbat "children's productions", in which L. also participated.

In 1905 through the initiative of her friends, the former chorus singer and the actress-to-be Nadia Dranova, she went away to Lodz as a chorus girl for Kaminski, and from there migrated as a chorus singer to other troupes, performing from time to time as a prima donna.

In 1910 she entered into the Lodz "United Troupe" (Miriam Triling, M.Kh. Titelman, Fela Lantsman, Malvina Serotska, Leyzer Zhelazo et al.), and she debuted as "Feygele" in Thomashefsky's "The Jewish Soul" and "Khanele" in Shorr's "Be a Man!"

In 1911 she married actor Shlomo Hershkovitz and followed the same path (as her husband), switching early on from prima donna to soubrette roles and afterwards to "old comic" roles.

During the outbreak of the Second World War she was captured in Lodz. On 11 May 1940, when the Nazis created the Lodz Ghetto, she was there, among the professional Yiddish theatre people. L. was found with her husband, who had participated in the Yiddish theatre productions that were arranged in the ghetto, as well as their daughter and son.