Born on 11 January 1893 in Bitshkif (Bitshkof), Komitet Marmarosh, Bev. Hungary.

He received a strong Yiddish education; later he studied a little German with his father.

For a short time he attended the Hungarian elementary school and on his own studied other secular courses.

From the age of thirteen he studied in yeshivas of Hungary and Galicia, at the same time studying Hungarian and German.

H. settled in Budapest where he found work as a bank employee.

The literary activity began in the year 1908; he wrote songs and prose in Hungarian, Yiddish, Hebrew, and he is a permanent collaborator at the Hungarian weekly paper "Mult em dzhova". H. was the correspondent for the Hungary for the New York "Yiddish tageblat".

H. translated the war-drama "Der loytn" by the Hungarian-Yiddish writers Vivari, the dramatic poem "Di tragedye funs mentshn" by the Hungarian poet Imre Madatsh, and a one-acter by Hungarian-Yiddish writer A. Kotser.

M. E. from K. Mestel.

Zalmen Reyzen -- "Leksikon fun der yidisher literatur (Lexicon of Yiddish Literature)", Vol. I, pp. 763-4.