Career History
Lebowits started as a Badchen in 1997, performing Comedy at friends' weddings. He gained popularity after acting the comedic role in the Yiddish play "Hamaloch Hagoel" in 1998.
He became known as the "Pester Rebbe" because of his talent of imitating the Hungarian Language, implying that he is from Budapest.
In 1999 Lebowits debuted his first comedy album "Purim Y2K" (produced by Yochi Briskman). This was followed by "Purim Station" in 2004.
As his popularity grew, Lebowits was hired to entertain at parties, dinners, Weddings and Sheva Brochos in the USA, Europe, Africa and Israel.
Lebowits has performed with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Lipa Schmeltzer, Mordechai ben David and Avraham Fried among others in various places as well as "The Prudential Center" in New Jersey.
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