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L. was born on 26 October
1898 in Vilna, Polish Lithuania. His father was an
optician. In 1915 he completed the Vilna government
gymnasium. On the eve of the German occupation, he left
Vilna and became a prompter with a Yiddish troupe in
southern Russia, which had, due to the ban on Yiddish
theatre, performed Yiddish repertoire in Russian.
In 1922 he began to act in
Yiddish in Bobruisk and other cities of White Russia. In
the same year he came to Poland and after the necessary
examinations he became a member of the Warsaw
Professional Artists Union. He entered into a Yiddish
operetta troupe in Vilna, then toured with Esther Rukhl
Kaminska's troupe across the kresn (occupied
territories in Poland). Later he acted in "Vik't" in
Warsaw's Central Theatre, and with the same troupe he
went on tour across Poland and Galicia. Then he acted
for a year in Vilna with Z. Turkow, Samberg, Kutner, Ida
Kaminska, Shriftzetser and under the direction of
Morewsky. |
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