At age seventeen, tiring of boot manufacturing and no longer being able to endure the strife at home, he stole ten rubles from a sister and fled for Warsaw. For four years he suffered in exile across Poland and Lite (Lithuania), hunger and frost.... At age twenty-one he returned home, was released from military service, made peace with his father, married, went back to work, and again continued his education.

In 1908 he wrote his first play, "Di geshterte khasene," which on 24 February 1917 was staged in Vienna in the Stefanie Theatre by the actor Reyzman.

In 1914 he moved over to Krakow, then Austria. During the outbreak of battle, he was taken captive in a camp in a far-off town. There he founded together with a director of the Baron Hirsch School, Lulker, a leyenshtub (rest home?), a library, a theatre group, which played on each Shabes and Sunday. He then wrote for them many one-acters, among them: "Di shvindzikhtike," "A shtikl tsuker", "Der meus", "Zoshe-popiele", "A khosn-- a poet", "Hersh velvele," "Tsvishn tsvay flamen" and "Koncurent."

In 1915 he began to work as a correspondent for the Lemberg "Tageblat," and in the "Vienna morgn-tsaytung." In 1916, when the captivity camp became moved in Lindenburg, he also founded there a library and a theatre group.

In 1917 he wrote his play "Zelig furman", which was staged on 4 February 1918 in the Vienna Stefanie Theatre under the direction of Reyzman.

In 1918 A. returned to Krakow, and he wrote there a play "Khsa hrbnus," in which he portrayed in an artistic fashion the experiences and conflicts in a rabbinic court. The play on 23 July 1921 was staged by Zygmunt Turkow in Warsaw's Central Theatre. The play also may have been published in Y. M. Veysberg's publishing hours, which however had a fire....

In 1920 A. moved over to Lodz, where he was an independent contributor in the "Lodzer tageblat," in which he printed several hundred folk stories and Chasidic stories as well as modern stories that were printed in the Yiddish press of the entire world. Here he also participated and was active in a literary union, excelling as a devoted friend and honest human being.

In Lodz A. again devoted his energies to writing plays, and so he wrote there "in each time" -- a folks play from [Mhrls] time, "In di shturm-teg" -- a war drama, "Der kunst moler," "Di filantropn," "Der feldsher-yung," a lebensbild in four acts, which on 31 January 1925 was staged in Lodz's Skala Theatre by Kompaneyets' troupe.

A., who had only a year earlier manifested a special excitement for the actress Esther Rukhl Kaminska, also had begun to write a play "Di shoyshpilerin," in which he wanted, in the manner of Dumas' play "Kean," to portray the life of Esther Rukhl Kaminska, but the difficult material conditions which affected the larger part of his life, had a great deal of impact; A. had been laid up [in bed] due to a chronic bronchitis. In October 1924 he [tsugekilt] himself, contracting a lung infection, and after being ill for several months, he passed away on 31 August 1925 in Lodz, and there was brought to his eternal rest.