Early Career
At 16, he tried out for Israel Rosenberg's theater troupe when they passed through town for a month. He was offered a position as an extra, but his father forbid him to go on the road. Three years later he joined a different small travelling troupe, and spent three years travelling through Europe with that troupe, first in Russia and then in Romania. In 1886, he came to the United States.
In one of the first Yiddish-language productions of Shakespeare, he played the title role in Othello, opposite Jacob Adler's Lego. He was responsible for bringing Bertha Kalich to America.
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