Born on 27 September 1897 in Warsaw, Poland into a Chasidic family. He learned in cheders, yeshivas, etc. With hardships he was permitted to pursue his studies, also with a teacher. Through his cousin, the actor hKaim Grinshpan, he became familiar with Yiddish theatre and moreover came to feel strongly about it. He participated in a dramatic circle with Warsaw’s “Hazamir,” and then immigrated for two years with Nathan Goldberg across Poland. Due to the First World War, he was prevented from acting in Poland in Yiddish, and therefore had to 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. 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. 1920 – 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.

1929 – went over to being a stage manager in the all-Ukrainian state theatre for small forms, “Gez-kult,” where he was active until