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Born on 27 September 1897 in Warsaw, Poland into a
Chasidic family. Learned in cheders, yeshivas, etc. With
difficulty he was permitted to take up his studies, as
well as with a teacher. Through his cousin, the actor Khaim Grinshpan,
he became familiar with Yiddish theatre and moreover had
an inclination for it. He participated in a
dramatic circle with Warsaw’s “Hazamir,” and then
toured for two years with Nathan Goldberg across
Poland. Due to the First World War, he was prevented
from acting in Poland in Yiddish, and he had to therefore
put on productions at dances and wedding halls under the
mask of dance evenings and weddings.
At the end of 1914 he went away to Minsk, and there with
actors and “amateurs,” he put together a collective and
acted in Shabes matinees. He gave fifty-percent
discounts to the Russian Red Cross, but after performing
several times, the productions became banned. In 1915 went back
to Warsaw and there prompted with the “Artist’s Vinkele”
with “Hazamir.” Then he went on tour with Esther Rukhl
Kaminska across Poland and the Ukraine. After the
October Revolution he entered into the troupe of Rudolf Zaslavsky and (?) Luxembourg.
In 1920 he participated in
Poltava’s “Kunst vinkl,” which migrated in 1921 across
to Kremenchug and then to Kharkov. Since 1922 he settled
into the theatre in Kiev, where L. participated as an
evening regisseur until 1928.
In 1929 he
went over to being a stage manager in the
all-Ukrainian state theatre for small forms, “Gez-kult,”
where he was active until |