 At CUNY he studied with Stanley Milgram, who later became his colleague.He was a film director at the Sahia Film Studio in Bucharest 1959-6 and a movie reviewer for the Bucharest Press 1958-60.He worked at Chamber Theater, Tel Aviv 1962-63, as artistic director of the Comedia Theater Tel Aviv 1963-66; and as artistic advisor for Tel Aviv Municipality 1962-66.