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A. was born on 18 September
1894 in Lodz, Poland. His father was a ritual
slaughterer, the uncle -- a rabbi. He completed a
folkshul.
As a youth he was very
interested, and often he secretly visited the Yiddish and Russian theatre
when he was a yeshiva student. In 1913 he began to
participate in literary and musical events. In 1915 he
performed for he first time in Zylbercweig's troupe as "Hirsh Ber" in
Kobrin's "Dorfsyung". After performing with the local
troupe across the Polish province, he acted for several
months in M. D. Vaksman's troupe in Lodz's Thalia
Theatre, then with member troupes across the Polish
province. Since 1918 he has toured with member troupes across the province of
Galicia. In 1920 he acted for several months in Przemysl
under the direction of Ebell, then for two years with a
member troupe (organized by the local artists union) in
Lemberg, later again he traveled with various member
troupes across the province.
During the Second World War
he acted in Lemberg, and when the troupe fled, he
almost fell into the Nazi hands; he went away, to travel
around under the worst conditions, across the Soviet
Union. He died in Bukhara during the typhus epidemic.
Here his daughter Leah
(Lola) Amzel died of typhus, who at the age of nineteen
or twenty, who was a "wonder child", had acted in
Yiddish theatre for the state, and even guest-starred,
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