- Mother of actresses Ida Kaminska and Regina Kaminska and the stage actor Józef Kaminski, grandmother of the actress Ruth Turkow.
- She received little formal education.
- Managing his wife's career, Avrom-Yitskhok brought her to New York for several successful tours beginning in 1909.
- Today, the Jewish Theatre, Warsaw is named after the two actresses : Ester Rachel Kaminska and her daughter Ida Kamisska.
- As a young woman she moved to Warsaw where she worked as a seamstress and was increasingly drawn to the theater.
- In 1907 she and her husband founded the Literary Troupe (Literarishe trupe), the first Yiddish theater company to dedicate itself to a 'literary' or 'artistic' repertoire.
- She is considered the most important Jewish actress in Poland and the most outstanding Yiddish actress of her time.
- She was known as the mother of Yiddish theatre.
- She won fame as the star of a series of Yiddish theater companies managed by her husband, Avrom Yitshok Kaminski (Abraham Isaac Kaminski), touring in the cities and small towns of the Russian Empire from approximately 1893 to 1905.
- Her husband built a huge theater intended exclusively for Yiddish plays. He remodeled the circular hall in Warsaw known as the Golgotha, where the circus had performed, into a 1,500-seat theater. Therefore he used her earnings from her American tours.
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