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L. was born in 1893 in
Partshev (Parczew), previously in the Siedlce, now in the Lublin region,
Poland. His father was a "corner lawyer." He
learned with melamedim (religious teachers), and
then in a Beit HaMedrash. From his early youth he worked
with various trades ([kamashn, beytlen], clocks,
hats, cooking, etc.) Discontent at home, where he
didn't have any peace with his stepmother, and also
because of his situation at work, he often left for relatives in other cities,
and he worked in a beer brewery with an uncle in Lublin,
in a business in Warsaw, and during the outbreak of war
in a restaurant-hotel in Brisk. Here L. was taken into
military service, and after being released, in 1917, he
debuted with an "amateur" group as "Brunin" in Rakov's
"Der talmud-khokhem" then here he directed "Chasia
the Orphan" with Sarah Reyzen, ,and he also wrote at the same
time in the local "Der veker."
Traveling as a businessman
for various articles across Russia, the came to Uman
to a department of [arbeter-komisariat], where he
founded the local "Culture League," a drama
section, in which he acted and directed.
In 1920 he immigrated to
Romania and he began to act with the "amateurs" in Beltz,
and here he became engaged by actor Fishl Kanapov, and
since 1922 he has been a professional Yiddish actor.
After acting for a year with Kanapov, where he had the
opportunity to act with the guest-starring Jacob Kalich
and Molly Picon, he entered into the troupe of Vera
Kanievska-Breitman, |
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