L. was born on 21 October 1888 in Tomaszow, Lublin Gubernia, Poland, to Chasidic parents, merchants. He learned in a Talmud Torah, then with a rabbi from Lodz R' Elihu Chaim Meyzel.

Later he became active in the Jewish Workers' Movement. L. performed in 1910 as a declamator and monologist in the literary evenings of the "Harpe" society and "Dramatishe kunst", then entered into the professional Yiddish theatre, touring for several years with various itinerant troupes across Russia. For a certain time he directed in the troupe of Pepi Littmann, acting in Germany, Poland (Lodz's "Grand Theatre"), Austria, France, and later as regisseur and actor in the Czechoslovakian Yiddish theatre "Habima".

L. wrote a play "Hurbn ukraine", which in 1920 was staged in Paris and Belgium.
 

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