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B. was born on 14 January
1900 in Belz, Bessarabia. His father was a contractor
for a number of houses. Until age eight he lived with
his grandfather, an owner of a private and modern
Yiddish school, then he completed the city school and
envisaged Yiddish and Hebrew studies with his
grandfather.
Attending as a child with
his parents the Yiddish theatre, B. attempted together
with his friend, the late actor Leon Gold, "to act in
the theatre", and when they were older, they found an
amateur circle and left for Odessa. Here in 1916 B. had
the opportunity to perform as "Katsav" in "Devorahle
myukhst" by Kobrin. From there he went over to other
troupes and acted until 1918 with Meerson, Epstein,
Libert et al. In 1918 B. acted in Rumania with Itsikl
Goldenberg, Kaner, Aschkenazy, Ziegler, Clara Young,
Segalesko. In 1920 B. acted in Young's troupe in
Constantinople, then for a short time in Paris, in 1921
in Belgium, in 1922 in London, with Joseph Kessler,
where he had the opportunity to act with Gabel, Jennie
Goldstein, Dora Weissman and Thomashefsky., then he
traveled with Joseph Kessler to South Africa, and in
1925 he came to Buenos Aires, where he acted for two
years, there organizing a troupe with whom he traveled
through all of the Jewish communities of Argentina, he
acted then with his own troupe for the first time in
Yiddish theatre (six months) in Chile, a month in Peru,
seven months in Cuba and eight months in Mexico. In the
beginning of 1929 B. acted with his troupe in Texas,
United States of America.
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