B. was born on 16 July 1884
in Lodz, Poland, to pious parents. He learned in modern
cheders and in a private school. He worked in a
manufacturing business. The Ebenholtz chorus recommended
him as a chorus singer in the Apollo Theatre under the
direction of Kaminski-Berman, but thereafter as he was
in Lodz, it became forbidden to act in Yiddish theatre,
and B. returned as an employee in a manufacturing
business.
In 1905 B. entered into
Zandberg's in the Grand Theatre, where he acted in small
roles. In 1906 he traveled on a tour across Poland with
the united troupe of the Muranover Theatre. In 1908 he
acted with Julius Adler in a tour across Russia. In 1909
he acted in Belgium, Paris, London and Buenos Aires,
where he also had the opportunity to act with
Moshkovitsh, then he returned to Russia and at the end
of 1913, for a short time he acted with Julius Adler in
Warsaw. Due to the war, he became mobilized, and he fled
to Lemberg, where he acted until the Revolution, and he
was engaged to Warsaw in "Venus" and then in the Skala
with Adler in Lodz. B. then organized by himself a tour
across the [Rand] area, participating later in the Tselmeister-Picon troupe in Warsaw, guest-starring
across Poland by himself and with Kanievska-Breitman,
participating in Adler's dramatic troupe across Poland,
traveling then with Kainevska-Breitman to South Africa,
South America and he came back to Poland, where he acted
for a short time, then in Vienna, 1928 -- in Rumania,
Bessarabia and Vienna. |
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