T. was born in 1872 in Warsaw, Poland. His parents were merchants. He learned in his youth in a yeshiva and secretly outside courses.

His parents gave him into a leather business, he became known to the actor Gottfried, who took him into the then Yiddish theatre "Eldorado", and T. sensed a deep striving to test his talent on the stage boards.

T. remained on the stage and soon became a name as a prudent and good actor. A short time after that he became regisseur and organized several troupes, with whom he traveled across Russia with, where he acquired a great name for himself.

In 1907, when Zandberg founded the Lodz Grand Theatre a stable Yiddish troupe, T. there was the premier actor and regisseur, reading especially [akht oyf] decoration and costumes. Several years later T. founded in Lodz a "United Troupe", with which he staged serious dramas, including for the first time Katzenelson's "Karikaturn".

T. was -- according to Z. Zylbercweig -- the coach of a young generation of Yiddish artists. But the various [glgulim], which a Yiddish actor had to at every time participate in, work very well on his health condition: his voice lost its splendor, later receiving a paralysis, and from an active actor T. became a theatrical understudy. A Jew -- a [pkh], always found to be a proverbial