Born in 1897 in Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine.

While serving in the Russian army during World War I, K. became a prisoner of the Austro-Hungarians. While in prison camp, K., Duna Sardiel and Mordechai Yachson set up a Yiddish theatre that remained active for more than three years, for which he built a stage out of a barrack[?]. At this theatre they performed plays by Gordin, Asch et al. with K. playing the main women’s roles.

After the war, K. went to France where he was employed by the Yiddish theatre. From France he went to America where at first he was a member of Kunst-Ring [Art Ring] of the Yiddish Art Theatre. Maurice Schwartz noticed his technical abilities right away and took him on as a stage director as well as an “episodic realist”.

K. worked for many years at the Yiddish Art Theatre in the province, coordinating mass scenes, the extras, in short all the technical side of the production. During the 1944-45 season, K. worked for the Jewish Folk Theatre. 

K. was married to actress Goldie Lubritsky.

He passed away in New York on 1 February 1945.

M. E. and Mordechai Yachson