G. was born on 10 July 1894 in Lodz, Poland, to religious parents, owners of a small sock factory. From his early youth he attended the Yiddish theatre, copied the house actors, and associated himself afterwards with an amateur circle, which stage within the village of Zgherzh near Lodz Rakov's "Talmid khokhem," in which G. debuted as "Mordechai noz". After acting for a short time with "amateurs", G. immigrated during the World War to Berlin and entered into the local Yiddish theatre, where he acted for a fee.

In 1918 G. debuted as "Khfni" in Sharkansky's "Kfni un pinchas". Later G. acted in Russia with Adolf Segal, in Paris with Fannie Vaksman, in Poland with a members troupe, then in Buenos Aires, from where he went on a tour across Chile, Peru, Cuba and Mexico with the Argentinean Yiddish troupe of Morris Brown.

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