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N. was born in December 1894
in Berdichev, Ukraine. Her father was a haberdasher. She
learned in a city school and at night in a Yiddish
professional school, In 1904 she moved with her family
to Odessa and due to economic conditions, she later, for
a year, entered into Fishzon's chorus. N. then debuted
as "Leahle" in Shomer's "Der tsveyter haman", and soon
became the second prima donna, acting a season with
Fishzon in Yekaterinoslav and in Odessa.
In 1913 N. was prima donna
with Adler-Lipovski in Lodz's Circus building, then with
Kompaneyets in Warsaw and in the "Grand Theatre" in Lodz
with Zandberg. During the war mobilization, N. aced in
Riga (Lerman, Meyerson, Rubin), then in Pinsk and Homel,
1917 -- in Kiev under the direction of Berman and
Grossman, later migrating over to Russia and Tashkent in
a members troupe, in 1924 --she guest-starred in Moscow
and she traveled back to Tashkent, where she acted until
1928 (from that a year dramatic repertoire in the
Yiddish Workers House and in a cooperative, coming into
a lease from the government).
In 1929 N. came to America,
acting for several months in a non-union troupe in
Pittsburgh, and one time she acted as "Mirele Efros" in
New York's Folks Theatre. Thereafter she traveled back
to Europe.
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