E. was born on 26 April (A. S.) 18890 in Zlotshev, Eastern Galicia. Her parents were Jacob and Ethel Glickman, directors and actors of the Yiddish theatre in Rumania.

She completed a folkshul in Bucharest. She debuted in the children's chorus in Goldfaden's production of "The Sacrifice of Isaac", and until the age of eleven acted in children's roles. At the age of twelve she acted as "Shulamit" in Hurwitz's "Shlomo HaMelekh (Solomon the King)". 

At age sixteen E. began to act in adult roles in the troupe of her father's and then toured across Rumania, Bukovina and Galicia. Later she acted under the partnered direction of her husband, Yoshe Ettinger, and her father.

During wartime E. acted in Russia, the 1919-20 season in the Yiddish State Theatre in Berdichev and Zhitomir, then in Poland. In 1927 she was in Paris's Yiddish theatre and since 1928 has been in Rumania.

For several seasons E. also has acted in vaudeville in Rumania.
 

M. E.