Born on 20 March 1856 in
Hirsh, Rumania. About his family, it is only known that
his brother was a butcher, and we have him called Aaron
Heker.
He arrived in America in
1885-6 as a coupletist and composer, and as he was
performing then in Yiddish theatre as the actor Max
Avramovitsh, A. had to enter his family name as
Abramovitsh.
A. was (according to Yiddish
actors' accounts) the best couplet singer on the Yiddish
stage, and for a short time after his coming to America,
he entered into German variety, from where he later went
over to Yiddish theatre, when he began there to stage
operettas and musical comedies. In 1895 A. was the star
comic in the Rumanian Opera House in New York.
A composed music for tens of
plays, which were performed at that time, such as:
Lateiner's operetta "Joseph and his Brothers", "Ezra,
the Eternal Jew", "Woman of Valor", "Daniel in the
Lion's Den", "Ifs tur", "Kurkhs utsrus",
and Rudolf Marx's "The Bowery Tramp", to Israel
Weinblatt's "Nakhman Zlatopoler" or "Father and Son",
and to Jacob Terr's "Amnon and Tamar" or "The Happy
Shepherd".
A. also composed the text
and the music for very many songs and couplets, which
had been song alone, and which were |
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