Born in New York, America, to Orthodox parents. She learned Jewish subjects in a Talmud Torah. She completed public and high school. She studied at Hunter College. She was interested in the dance arts, and she studied in the dance school of Burt Larson, thanks to Mary Wigman. She danced in Maurice Schwartz's productions of "Dybuk", "Shabse tsvi", "La tkhmud" and "The Devil Knows What" in the Yiddish Art Theatre, the "Death Dance" in "Dybuk" in David Herman's production in the National Theatre and staged the dance in Menachem Rubin's production of "200,000" in the Rolland Theatre.

1939 -- Z. had a dance recital in the Guild Theatre on Broadway. Performing in dance programs with various social activities, Z. had specialized in dance build on Jewish themes, folk and biblical motifs, had staged dance classes in the Jewish secular schools and performed the choreography in a range of productions for Yitzhak Roitblum.

In 1946 Z. was invited by the Yiddish theatre society in Los Angeles to organize the dance department, and on 25 September performed with the first Yiddish dance ballet in the Philharmonic Auditorium, dedicated to the struggle for the liberation of Eretz Yisrael. 1949 -- performed with dance ballet in the Hollywood Bowl, in honor of the first anniversary of the land of Israel, then in the Greek Theatre, Gilmore Stadium and the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, and on 22 October 1949 in the Shrine Auditorium represented Israel in the International Folk Dance Festival.