Born in 1900 in Pietrkow, Poland, to well-to-do parents. His father had, as a musician, played in the orchestra of Zandberg's Yiddish theatre in Lodz. As a young student B. studied music with the well-known musician Ignatz Gruzhnitskovitsh, and concentrated on playing the piano. 1919 he joined the Polish army, and two years later deserted and fled to Galicia, where in Peremyšl (then a free city) entered into the local Yiddish theatre as a pianist, which was under the direction of Ebell. There he found himself with the late well-known comic Max Bozyk (also a deserter of the Pilsudski's army), and between the two of them there developed a very intimate friendship, and together they played in various troupes, among them with Karol Zimbalist and Regina Zucker, where Blumstein was the conductor and pianist, and in Norbert Glimer's operetta theatre.

Evidently, he was, as a deserter, visited by the secret police, and he fled to Paris in 1931, where he acted under the direction of Lachtiger, and from there he immigrated in 1935 to America, where he played with several famous actors, such as Aaron Lebedeff and Jennie Goldstein, performing with the orchestras in the Yiddish thetres of Chicago, Detroit, Boston and Philadelphia. In 1947 B. married the actress Stella Schulman, and since then they have acted together in various theatres in the provinces of America and Canada. He went on a tour with the Yiddish National Arbeter Farband (Jewish National Workers Alliance), with Dzigan-Schuchmacher, then with Ben Bonus, Mina Bern, Benzion Witler, Shifra Lerer, Max and Reizl Bozyk, and was the musical director