Born on 12 May 1899 in Belz, Bessarabia, to parents -- grain traders. He received a Jewish education, learned in a Belz yeshiva and also in a Russian folkshul.

As a child of eight, he began to sing with a cantor, and at the age of twelve he took to working in a dramatic circle as a prompter, while at the same time also acting in the production. For a short time he also acted in the troupe of Stanovski, who had come to Belz to perform.

1913 -- aroysgebnbet three rubles by his father and fled to Odessa, where he, through his countryman Leibele Maler, became a prompter in the troupe of Korik, where he also acted. A short time later he set out with an itinerant troupe across the Bessarabian province, where he read terrible news, and he ran back home, joined a cantor as a choir boy and became engaged as a choir boy to a cantor in Kishinev, where Chaim Meir Segalesko's troupe performed in Goldfaden repertoire, and since es feln zey oys khkhus, he joined in the acting with them for a long time.

1917-1919 -- immigrated with the troupes of Zolotnitski, Kanapov et al., across the Bessarabian province, until he arrived in Bucharest and acted for a long time in the "Central" Theatre (direction: Itsikl Goldenberg).