Born in 1892 in Dzhikov, Galicia. Father -- a tavern owner. He learned in a cheder and in a school. In 1906 he immigrated to America, and here he was a tailor. In 1908, during the production of Lateiner's "Dos yidishe harts", he became a stage worker in Yiddish theatre. A short time later -- a prompter, and in 1916 the manager of Malvina Lobel, and he traveled with her to Argentina. Returning, he became engaged as a cashier at the Second Avenue Theatre in New York, and then in Toronto with the Germans, with whom he remained connected to for several years in various cities in America.

1926-27 -- became manager for Michalesko in Chicago; from 1928 until 1931 he was assistant manager for the Lawndale Theatre in Chicago (Charles Nelson -- director), then business manager for a union troupe in Pittsburgh and Cleveland.

1939 -- was stage manager for the Yiddish Art Theatre on 59th Street; 1940 -- press agent for Michalesko in Brooklyn's Parkway Theatre. In 1942 -- "company manager" for a union troupe in Chicago's Douglas Park Theatre. 1943-44 -- K. was "business manager" for Bleich's New York Public Theatre, then five years a cashier with the Yiddish Art Theatre; one season with Leo Fuchs and Edmund Zayenda, and again two seasons with the same Public Theatre.

1953 -- press agent for the Second Avenue Theatre; in 1954-55 -- "business manager" for an English troupe (with Maurice Schwartz)