Poltava Gubernia). In the summer of 1909  he entered into the "Hirshbein troupe" as an actor and assistant stage director, but due to military service he was forced to interrupt his acting work.

In 1912 P. participated in Lodz and later in a tour across Russia, in the Hebrew productions of the "Habima HaIvrit", under the direction of Itzhak Katzenelson in Gutskov's "Uriel Acosta", Herzl's "Dos neye geto (The New Ghetto)", and Katzenelson's "Mekhirat yosef (The Sale of Joseph)". Then he acted in the Yiddish troupes of Sam Adler, Genfer and Lipovski. 1915 -- with Lipovski's troupe in Kharbin, 1916 -- returned to Russia and acted with Zhitomirsky in Moscow.

After the February Revolution in 1917, P. participated in the founding of the artist's union, and he became active as a member of the management. Later he founded a few theatre studios in several cities of Poltava Gubernia, and after the passing of his wife, Viera Podolska, he organized in Zinovievsk (Yelizavetgrad) a state dramatic theatre which disbanded in 1921. After P. acted in Moscow and Leningrad, and in 1924 with Libert and Rakitin. 1925  together with Grinshteyn and Antsharov -- founded the "Amkho" troupe, with which he acted also acting in a directed collective, and in the span of three years time, across many cities of the Ukraine. 1928 -- together with his wife Genia Shalit -- toured across Russia with guest-starring  Julius Adler. 1929 -- he acted in the theatre of small forms "Gezkult", and then he moved across to Kiev into the state pedagogical, educational theatre for children "Tyug".
 

Sh. E. from Mark Leiptziker.