Born in Warsaw, Poland. His father was a Gerer Chasid. As a student of twelve he sang "alto" in the Prager choral school with Cantor Alter Orlevsy. At the age of eighteen he became a chorister in Warsaw's choral school on Tlomatske for Cantor Sherman and later with Cantor Sirota. At the same time he also participated in concerts and acted in Yiddish with amateurs.

He immigrated to Argentina where he entered into the Buenos Aires Yiddish "Teatro Olympia" as a chorister and later, during the guest roles of Morris Moshkovitsh, Bina Abramowitz and Kalman Yuvelir, Berta and Karl Gutentag, he took to acting in small and large roles, also having the opportunity to participate in the productions with the guest-stars from North America and Europe: Goldenburg, Kremer, Morevsky, Sokolov, Wallerstein, Teitelbaum, Lobel, Maurice Schwartz, Jacob Ben Ami et al.

In 1931, thanks to the initiative of P., [who] succeeded in transforming the "Argentino" into a Yiddish theatre under his and Leon Brest's production. 1932 -- staged with the "Teatro Ombu", 1933 -- again took over the "Teatro Argentino" for a member troupe that later united with a second troupe to act for six weeks, together with Maurice Schwartz in the "Teatro Colisseum". Since then, until 1942, he was a member in the member troupe in the "Teatro Excelsior", where he acted in father and character roles, and also he participated in the commercial production of the troupe. 1943 -- under management of Rosenberg, was the business director of the "Teatro Excelsior".