Born in 1877 in Warsaw, Poland.

His father was a small merchant.

G.'s older brother had acted with Goldfaden in 1887-8, at the same time that G., together with the late actor Adolf Berman and Brider Faynshteyn, sung in the children's chorus.

In 1889 G. acted with Mitelman in Wolf Litvak's garden in Warsaw, and when it was forbidden to act in Yiddish theatre, G. went into a small Russian chorus.

Later G. acted in both the old and new repertoire in the various Yiddish troupes across the entirety of Russia and Poland.

Sh. E.