A. was born in 1897 in Pantshe, Rumania. His parents were wine merchants. He learned in a cheder and in a four-class primary school. His parents sent him further to Czernowitz in order to learn, but he hadn't the desire, and he came back home, and from there went to Bucharest where he began to attend the Yiddish theatre. For several years he still attended the productions in the Jignitsa, until he became acquainted with an "amateur" group, and they put together a production each week. His first role was as "Gometz" in "Dr. Almasado". As such he acted for about seven years. Then he traveled to America, where he met his cousin, Dave Samulesco, [who was] acting in a vaudeville house on Eldridge Street with Spivak, but here he didn't find an engagement and [then] traveled to Chicago, where he was taken into the troupe of Frank and M. Brown on 12th Street. Then he became engaged to Elias Glickman, who had a large theatre, where they acted for an entire season. From there he went over to Cleveland to Berenstein, where he began to act with Gabel, Shenkman and Dworkin, and then he went to Boston into the Hub Theatre (Directors Gottlieb, Lateiner, and Silbert), and then into the communities of New York.

From America he returned to Rumania, and after that he performed several times in the Jignitsa (Directors Segalesco and Itzikl Goldenberg), where he organized a troupe under his own direction and acted for a season in Iasi, then a season in Galatz (Galati - ed.), already in partnership with Ebell. From there