Born on 24 September 1894 in Feleshti, Bessarabia.

His father was a housepainter.

Until the age of fourteen he learned in a cheder. Afterwards he learned until age nineteen in the Beltz Yeshiva, where he suffered from hunger and "needs and starts", and he fled in 1915 with two friends to Odessa. Here G. worked for six months in a munitions factory until he became a prompter and play rewriter in Korik's troupe. Two months later he performed for the actor Keyzerovitsh and remained since then as an actor in the troupe, which went afterwards to Kishinev. After Bessarabia became united with Romania; G. joined in with Itsikl Goldenberg's troupe, afterwards in the troupes of Ashkenazy, Ziegler, Fishzon, Kompaneyets, the Vilna Operetta troupe, and at the end of 1928 was in Ziegler's troupe.

Specialty: Character-comic.

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