P. was born on 5 August 1888 in Warsaw, Poland. He finished a folkshul. At the age of thirteen he sung with a cantor and afterwards together with the late actor Leibl Viner, and they performed at simkhas.

In 1905 he performed in Kompaneyets' troupe at the Muranow Theatre under the direction by Mark Arnstein, debuting as the "Rosh hakohl" in Shomer's "The Jewish Prince," later acting in Julius Adler's troupe across the Polish province, later with Tsipkus and Lipovski, and since 1913 in Vienna with M. Ziegler across the province in Galicia and in Paris with Morris Axelrad.

During the First World War (at a time when acting in the Yiddish theatre was forbidden), he learned a trade, in which he worked for a year's time. Later he was a co-founder of the Peretz Theatre in Paris and acted until 1921 in Paris and Antwerp, going to Romania where he acted with Ziegler, later in Bucharest with Goldenberg, in Iasi with Ashkenazy, as well as with the guest stars Molly Picon and Jacob Silbert. He returned to Paris, where he acted with the directors Blumental, Burshtin, and member troupes, as well as with Maurice Schwartz, during his guest-appearance in Paris. P. also participated in Yiddish theatre troupes in Antwerp, Brussels and London. And the Second World War took him to Paris.

When he was caught when the Germans were arresting Jews in Paris, he endured by not going out of his house. However, in July 1942 he felt a deep desire to find out what was happening in the world, and he went out to buy a newspaper. They soon arrested