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G. was born on 15 July 1892
in Warsaw, Poland, to religious parents. As her father,
as a Chasid, didn't give her an education, she attended
[bgnbh] very often the Polish theatre, that she really
charmed.
Due to her participation in
the Freedom Movement, she traveled in 1905 with her
family, without her father, to Paris and here she
performed for the first time in an amateur production
that was directed by Leopold Staf's "Farn shturm". Since
then she has participated in various amateur circles.
In 1908 she performed in a
professional offering of Zola's Der glkhs zined". Here
she became known to a group of intelligentsia,
among them the translator and journalist L. Blumenfeld
and Zigmund Gzivatsh, with whom she married. They
founded a dramatic circle and directed for the first
time in Paris the plays of Asch and Peretz Hirshbein.
In 1912 she studied in the
French dramatic studio of Rena Moybel. In 1913 she acted
under the direction of her husband, together with
Esther Ruchel Kaminska, Libert, Moshkovitsh and Lobel.
When the war broke out, she
traveled to Argentina. Here she acted with breaks in
various troupes.
Sh. E.
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