 When the Warsaw cabaret Azazel opened in 1925, Der Tunkeler's writings were part of the repertoire; his works were staged in Łódź and the Warsaw cabaret theater "Sambatyon" (which opened in 1927) as well.In 1931 he visited what was then the British Mandate of Palestine.The outbreak of World War II found him in Belgium from which he escaped into France only to be arrested by the Vichy authorities.