in New York, later in Los Angeles, yet he used to help out troupes when they need to have a role player, and he participated in the guest-starring [appearance] of the Yiddish Art Theatre, in Moshe Strassberg's production of Hirshbein's "The Blacksmith's Daughter", in Zylbercweig's production of Sholem Aleichem's "Berditshever restoranen (Berdichev Restaurant)", in Z.'s dramatization of Fannie Edelman's "Kourt geshikhtes", and in Elihu Tenenholtz's production of Kobrin's "Minke the dinstmoyd", with Celia Silver in the title role.

H. also gave his time with social work, and he was a member of the City Council of the Yiddish National Arbeter Farband in Los Angeles, and the secretary of the local Peretz Hirshbein branch of the Farband.

On 19 July 1953 H. passed away in Los Angeles.

Zalmen Zylbercweig characterized him as such:

"His rabbinical origins was in his blood: an idealist, a friendly, warm person and a very giving friend. Always pleasant, immensely responsible for the roles, which he took up. He was a fine character actor, but that wasn't important to him. But the various theatre stories which he used to play more than tell. The stories were exceptionally characterized for the wandering Yiddish theatre, and they had reflected the character and nature of the Yiddish actor and even more so the Yiddish theatre audience across the small communities, and villages in Carpathian Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, as well as in the vart-beder. In the stories, which were unfortunately not recorded, was a sea of folklore, without a difficult episode of the history of Yiddish theatre, and in the psychology and action of her geshtalt.

When not his sudden death (?), there are certainly many stories, which H. had so simply and so genuinely told and were recorded, and this does not farfiksirn these theater episodes in a certain great loss." (?)

M. E. from his wife Gizela and Sherry Sharf.