F. was born in March 1880 in Lemberg, Galicia.

His father was a poor tailor.

He finished a two-class folkshul, and as a poor orphan he had to at a very young age help out his father by earning money.

At age seventeen F. entered, through a friend, into a Yiddish theatre as a chorus singer, and after singing there a short time and in Rumania, where he also performed as a soloist, he debuted in Lemberg in Hurvits' operetta "Jacob and Esau", excelling especially in singing with his marvelous tenor voice, but due to his lung sickness, F. had to give up singing and become a character actor.

And precisely here he had the possibility to show his talent. An actor, who had acted with him, stated that he had heard the Yiddish actor, who had stood out with his abilities such that in [bilikn] as in better repertoire, because he had very seriously given himself to each role that he had acted. He therefore also used to be very excellent in serious, dramatic character roles.

His illness had overtaken him, and on 21 February 1921 he passed away in Lemberg.