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Born in 1882 in Piatra Neamt, Rumania.
Her father was a cantor. At the age of fifteen she entered into,
together with Lisa Shapiro, work in a cigarette factory. From there
they became through the actor Yosele Sherman, M. Ziegler and S.
Rozenshteyn taken into a troupe, in which they acted in the garden
of Sholem Sheykeles in Iasi. After some weeks of acting in the
troupe, she crossed over to become a chorus singer for Segalesco in
Bucharest, where she was for three years. Later she toured across
the Rumanian province with Leon Shpatser, with whom she acted in
vaudeville in Yiddish and came afterwards with him to Czernowitz and
Galicia, where she acted for several months.
She returned to Bucharest, where she was
engaged by the Silberts and Malvina Lobel for a tour across
Austria and Galicia. From here she went over to the troupe of
Tanentsap, then she acted with Sam Shilling for several months in
Tarnopol, Tarnow and other Galician cities.
From Galicia she immigrated to America,
where she acted in the province with Sara Adler and Max Wilner
(still not as a professional actor).
She became a member of section 2, acting
with various troupes in the province, then marrying and then
retiring from the stage.
Sh. E. from Avraham Litman.
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