He was born in 1876 in Khush (Huşi), Moldova.

In his junior year he acted in the Iasi Yiddish Garden Theatre "Pommel Verde" with Clara Young, Sara and Leopold Kaner, Isidor Ashkenazy, Sarah Ettinger et al.

At the same age he also worked as a technical composer in various theatrical troupes.

On 30 June 1941, the second year of the war, he died on the suffocation trains in Podolia.

His wife, Roza Heller (Hershkovitsh), a former Yiddish play actress, survived the war and lived as a pensioner at the Bucharest Yiddish State Theatre.

One of their daughter, Karola, also acted on the Yiddish stage and now lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Another daughter Rukhele Heller-Shapiro is a member of the Bucharest Yiddish State Theatre. Her husband is the composer for the Izo Shapiro Theatre.

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