 As a teenager, Kremer began working as a poet; writing revolutionary poetry for a newspaper in Odessa.The newspaper's editor, Israel Heifetz, took an interest in Kremer and provided her with the funds to pursue studies in opera with Pollione Ronzi in Milan from 1902-1911.She was forced to stop studying and begin concertizing when her father's business failed; her mother came to her in Italy and she supported them both.