N. was born in 1908 in Smiela, Ukraine, into a family of weavers, who early lost his mother.

He found his way to the theatre in a Yiddish dramatic circle of artistic [zelbsstendikeyt], afterwards taken in as an actor into the Kiev Yiddish theatre of the [worker youths=arbeter yungt] and he was sent from there to study in the Kiev Dramatic Institute, where he finished in 1936 and was appointed regisseur of the Kiev Yiddish Children's Theatre. At the same time he learned in the inspirateur of the theatrical institute and at the same time was an assistant to the preeminent teacher-regisseur S. Novak.

In 1939 N. was engaged to direct two plays in the Kherson theatre, and after that the Soviets had taken Western Ukraine, and he had a performance in Lvov's theatre.

In 1940, when there was organized the Czernowitz Yiddish State Theatre, he became there the main regisseur, but when the Nazis attacked the Soviets, N. volunteered to go into the army and in the process of laying a bridge across the Dnieper for the Soviet army, he became mortally wounded. He came to his eternal rest in July 1941 in the Kamenets-Podolsk region.

His wife, who worked in the theatre, lives in Kiev. Their daughter, Sayra, who in 1961, finished a [boy]- institute, and she works in Minsk, then came a state pension.
 

M. E. from Yonah Radinov.