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Avram Stencl was born in Poland; following the rise of Nazism, he immigrated to England in 1936 and settled in Whitechapel, where he remained for more than forty years. Here, he launched his career as a Yiddish poet and edited the journal 'Loshn un Lebn' (‘Language and Life’), which in August 1943 included an article about Jewish painters with illustrations by Jankel Adler and Josef Herman – the latter was also an occasional contributor to the journal.

Herman’s portrait of Stencl, carried out in 1946, testifies to their friendship, formed in this period. Stencl was also a member of the Ohel (meaning ‘tent’)’ Centre, founded in 1942 by the brothers Alexander and Benzion Margulies. Although by the 1950s Stencl had become a reclusive figure, as Monica Bohm Duchen has observed, he was (like Adler and Herman) ‘another pivotal figure in the perpetuation on British soil of European Yiddish culture’.