by Sholem Aleichem, David
Pinski and Mark Arnstein. 1918 -- he entered
into the provincial troupe "Lida", under the
leadership of Zalmen Zylbercweig and acted as "Prokop"
in Kobrin's "Dorfsyung", and under Zylbercweig's
direction, he also participated in several Hebrew
productions across the Polish province. In the summer of
1919 he participated in the guest-starring of Leonid
Sniegoff in "Harbst-fidln" and "Father". 1919-20 -- in
the "Lodz Yiddish Dramatic Theatre" (Director: A.
Kompaneyets, artistic direction -- Avraham Morevsky).
Summer 1920 -- acted with a member troupe in Bialystok
and Grodno.
At the end of 1920
he arrived in Kovno, Lita (Lithuania), where he
entered into the dramatic theatre (Leader -- L
Sokolov), then in the "Folks Theatre" (founder:
N. Lipovski), and in the "First United Troupe in
Lita", where he acted until 1928, from where he
was invited as an artistic leader of the studio
with Kovno's "Kinder hoyz", where he staged for
the first time on the Yiddish stage, a
conception of Chasidic stories, words, melodies
under the name "Chasidic Evening", Itzhak
Katzenelson's "The Sale of Joseph" in Yiddish, a
dramatization by W. Bush's "Notl un motl",
Sholem Aleichem's "Mentshn", A. Kuprin's "Klaun",
Andreyev's "The Seven Who Were Hanged", and
Pinski's "Der oytser (The Treasure)".
In 1928 --
co-founder of the "New Yiddish Theatre in Lita",
which began with a member troupe in which he
performed as "Lou Mozgovoyer" in Sholem
Aleichem's "Goldgreber (Golddiggers)", and
remained there to act, where the troupe went
over to private hands under the direction of the
guest-starring Menachem Rubin, Julius Adler,
Rudolph Zaslavsky, Celia Adler, Zygmunt Turkow
et al.
When the Nazi's had
occupied Lita, they had him deported and killed.
Sh. E.