B. was born on 27 November 1872 in Warsaw, Poland. His father was a tailor. He completed a Sunday trade school, as a youth he sang in the Tlomatsker choral school, and from there Goldfaden had him and Tantzman took him into the children's chorus in the Eldorado Theatre. In 1892 together with Mitelman, Liebert, Kaminski, Esther Rukhl Kaminska, Rothstein, Zilberberg, he began to act on the Yiddish stage in Warsaw with the Russian director Olginska. B.'s first performance was as "Komisar" in "Koldunya". In 1894 B. toured with Shliferstein. In 1898 he joined as a [reziner] in the troupe, in which his brother Herman had partnered with Kaminski. In 1900, when Yiddish theatre was forbidden, B. toured with Yiddish actors in Russian and German quartets, until he was taken into in 1905 the Warsaw Bagatela Theatre. In 1908 b. was engaged to Zandberg in Lodz's Grand Theatre, where he acted for several years and there directed for the first time in Europe Gordin's "Alishe bn-aboyh". In 1913 b. acted with Clara Young in Warsaw, and then in a European operetta repertoire  with Neroslavska. In wartime B. found, together with Rothstein and Fishelevitsh a Yiddish theatre in Warsaw on Tvarda 7, where he also came to act -- due to the derivation(?) of Yiddish -- Yiddish plays in Polish. After the war B. acted for a certain time with Esther Rukhl Kaminska, then in "Sambatyon", a revue theatre, and toured across Poalnd with a troupe of which he was he initiator.

B. also had participated in the film "di farshtoysene tokhter", "Der vilder foter" by Libin, and "Tkiet khf".