L. was born in Apt (Opatów), Radom Gubernia, Poland, to religious parents, leather merchants. He came over with his parents to Lodz. L. began, meanwhile, to learn in a school because his parents had forced him out of their home.

After school L. participated in the student productions and he became excited about attention. Later L. worked in a farm near Lodz and early he learned and "studied" plays.

Coming to Loddz, L. began [farkern] in "amateur" circles and he debuted in the offering of Chirikov's "Di yidn (The Jews)", under the direction of the Moscow director Baru. On 10 April 1909 L. became a professional actor in Sam Adler's troupe. From there L. went over to the troupes of Fishzon, Lipovski, Zandberg and Adler-Serotsky.

In the time of the World War, he was the co-founder (together with Michalesko and Charaz) of the modern operetta theatre "Central" in Warsaw, and then he became one of the active collaborators, when the theatre was forced into a drama and comedy theatre.

In May 1924 he was co-founder of "Vik't", in which he had acted in Warsaw and in the province, then he acted in the operetta in Warsaw's Kaminski Theatre, then back in "Vik't", a short time  in "Sambatyon", where he also was an co-director, again in Kaminski's theatre (drama under the leadership of M. Lipman),