he soon left goldfaden's troupe along with fellow odessite israel rosenberg. they briefly toured (with a repertoire purloined from goldfaden) in moldavia, but the end of the war dried up the supply of free-spending merchants and middlemen who had briefly made yiddish theater in romania a prosperous enterprise. at the suggestion of jacob adler, they came back to odessa, where spivakofsky was the first leading man in rosenberg's new odessa-based troupe, the first professional yiddish theater troupe in imperial russia. (adler, 1999, 60, 68)