Lili Liliana was born in 1915 in Warsaw Poland. As a fourteen-year-old, Lili performed in the chorus of the Skala Theatre in Warsaw, while at the same time learning in a gymnasium, or a secondary school.
In 1931 she was engaged for the small-arts theatre called "Ararat," by the poet Moshe Broderzon, and later she went over to the "Yidishe Bande" at the "Novoshtshi" Theatre in Warsaw. She met and married a fellow Yiddish actor, Leon Liebgold, and subsequently followed the same path in the theatre as he did.
In 1936 Lili acted first as a soubrette, and later in prima donna roles. In that year Lili acted the role of "Leah" in the well-known Yiddish film, “The Dybbuk," and in America in the film, "Kol Nidre."
In 1937 she went on a world tour with the "Yiddish Bande," performing in Lithuania, Lettland, which today is Latvia, Belgium and France, and in 1939 she came with the troupe to America, with which she remained due to the outbreak of the Second World War. Here she acted first as a soubrette, and later in prima donna roles in operatic repertoire in the Yiddish theatres of Detroit and Chicago.
In 1943 Lili became a member of the Hebrew Actors Union and began to act in New York in various theatres until her husband came back from the American army, and then they traveled with various troupes across the Yiddish communities across the land.
In 1954 Lili went with her husband to guest-star in South America: she acted in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, and from there they went to guest star in the state of Israel in Yiddish, and then came back to America, where she acted in various theatres.
