Born on 15 February 1893 in Warsaw, Poland.

His father was a sugar baker.

He graduated from a primary school. Because of his love of the theatre he became an actor's agent. Later he became a bookkeeper, and still later at the age of seventeen years, he became a member of a chorus.

In 1910 he traveled with a group of young Yiddish actors and debuted in the shtetl Wlodawa as "Hotzmakh."

In 1912 he performed for a short time with the traveling troupe of Avraham Axelrad and traveled with them to Czernowitz.

Afterwards he played with Ashkenazy in Romania, and then once again with Axelrad in Czernowitz.

In 1915-16, he acted with a cooperative troupe throughout Hungary, and later throughout Czechoslovakia.

In 1917 in Galicia with Ebell, and in 1918 in Krakow with Jacobs.

From 1919-22 he was in Lubin and its surrounding communities, directed by Hershkovitsh.