- Brother of the actor Jonas Turkow, actor and writer 'Icchak Turkow' and the journalist Marek Turkow; husband of the actresses Ida Kaminska and Diana Blumenfeld; father of the actress Ruth Turkow (with Ida Kaminska).
- In the years 1929-1938 he collaborated with various troupes. He performed, among others, in Poland, Romania and Latvia.
- In 1938, in Lviv, he reactivated the Warsaw Jewish Artistic Theater with a new line-up, with which he gave performances in numerous Polish cities. The theater staged its last performance on September 5, 1939 (when a bomb hit the theater) in the Nowosci building in Warsaw.
- He performed in the Warsaw Jewish theater of Abraham Izaak Kaminski (1867-1918).
- He was the founder of several notable theatres, including the Central Theatre in 1921, co-founder of the Brazilian National Theatre in 1940 and the traveling Zuta Theatre in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1956, where he served as manager and director until its dissolution in 1967.
- He was a Polish actor, playwright, and director of Jewish origin from Warsaw.
- Shortly after German invasion of Poland in 1939 he left Poland together with his second wife. In 1940 he settled in Brazil. In 1952 he moved to Israel.
- He studied at Polish drama schools and played on the Polish stage for a short time.
- Turkow became famous for roles in the pre-war Jewish films and stage plays in Yiddish.
- In 1921, he founded the Central Theater, and on its basis, he then created the Warsaw Jewish Art Theater. Together with the ensemble of these two theaters, he prepared a number of modern stagings of European and Yiddish classics. The theater went bankrupt, but was reactivated in 1926.
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