G. was born in 1883 in Lodz, Poland, to religious parents. he learned with religious teachers (melamedim), a long time with a rabbi, wrote in a holy tongue, but under the influence of the German and Yiddish literature he went away but in an other breath, and at the age of seventeen he became a bookkeeper.

Working for three years with various firms, and not being pleased with his work, he wandered out to Germany, Belgium and France. there he became an ordinary [port]-worker, and after that he became acquainted with several Yiddish actors, came from England ...

In 1905 he came back to Lodz, where he performed happily in Avraham Yitzhak Kaminski's troupe, in the beginning in episodic roles.

Since then he has acted in various specialties and in various troupes across Russia and Poland.