He worked on many film scores and also wrote popular songs of the 1920s and 1930s.
Following France's invasion by Germany in 1940 during the Second World War, as a Jew Oberfeld faced increasing persecution.
Having taken shelter in Italian-occupied Nice he was arrested when the area was taken over by the Germans.
The music of the patriotic song of Nazi-collaborationist Vichy France "Maréchal, nous voilà !
", while credited to André Montagnard and Charles Courtioux, was in fact plagiarised from a work by Oberfeld[1] called "La Margoton du bataillon [fr].