Born in Iasi, Romania. Father -- a cutter. She learned in a primary school through her sister Amalia, who had married actor Sigmund Mogulesko, who came into contact with the Yiddish theatre and entered into the chorus of Mogulesko-Goldfaden's troupes in Romania and Russia. Later she came here also to act in episodic roles.

1886 -- came with her husband, Joseph Edelstein, to America, where she acted in various Yiddish troupes, most of the time under the management of her husband.

Still in Russia, acting in prima donna roles, E. there performed as "Genendl" in Shomer's "Der katorzhnik", and as "Tamar" in Lateiner's "Di libe fun tsion".

In America E. acted in character roles and was the first to act [in the role of] "Mishka" in Lateiner's operetta "Miskha and Moshka", and in Jacob Gordin's plays, such as "Froy rozenkrants" in "Siberia" (13 November 1891 in the Union Theatre), "Zelda" in "Der vilder mentsh" (4 November 1893 in the Windsor Theatre), "Madam Zhamanuli" in "Devorahle myukhst" (1893), and "Freyde henye" in "Dovidl mshurr" (1899).

1901-- guest-starred together with Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky in Berlin in Lateiner's "Dovids fidele", and since then, due to illness, withdrew from the stage.