G. was a saddle maker, then became a folk singer and traveled around with Israel Grodner. In Sukkot 1876 they performed together in Shimeon Mark's Garden in Iasi with the songs of Tsunzer, Zbarhsher, Linetsky and Goldfaden.

Goldfaden, who then was called to Iasi by Itzhak Liberesko, saw the two singers, and he wrote for them a "shtik" in two acts, about which Goldfaden [drikht zikh] by himself: "What can I say about that piece! A -- I don't know myself -- a kind of [duel=duelnish], a nonsense, a [kalature]".

In that piece Grodner had acted as a young Chasid and Goldstein was his young wife.

Goldfaden had just signed off on the lines of the scene and Goldstein as well as Grodner spoke their own "prose".

G. also participated in the first vaudeville "Dos bintl holts (The Bundle of Wood)", which Goldfaden had written.

When Goldfaden founded the first troupe of the province, Goldstein was in the troupe, but when the troupes of Grodner, Mogulesko and Spivakovski, were later formed G. went from one troupe over to the other.