Born in 1913 in Kishinev, Bessarabia. His father was a tailor. As a child of seven, he already had sung with a cantor. In 1927 he became a prompter in the troupes of David Fachler, Sidi Tal, Anna Yakubovitsh, Lydia Pototska, and the "Vilna Troupe."

In 1932 he debuted as "Donye" in "Mirele Efros" with Lydia Pototska, and since then remained as an actor in the troupes of Misha Fiszon, Hymie Prizant, Bennie Adler, Jacob Rechtzeit, David Zayderman et al, and with them wandered around across Romania.

In 1940 when Kishinev became taken over by the Russian Army, and the first Moldava Jewish State Theatre was founded, T. was taken in when the Nazi-Soviet powers, and with the theatre he was evacuated to Middle Asia, and when the theatre settled in Tashkent, and for a certain time was not active, T. became a neglected person and thereby helped at the Front.

On 1 September 1943 he was with the Uzbeki State Philharmonic and founded a Yiddish revue ensemble, under the artistic direction of Jacob Sternberg, with the participation of Sidi Tal. T. left the disaster and entered into the theatre.
 

Sh. E. from Yeshua Lubomirski.