B. was born on 19 August 1865 in Bershad, Podolia.

His father was a Chasid, the rabbi of the village. He gave him a strong religious education. In the Volohiner yeshiva B. became familiar with the new ideas and began to give himself to self-education. His literary activities B. had begun with a description of the yeshiva (in "Hasif" and hkhrm") and then he became one of the important Hebrew writers.

Later B. traveled to study in Germany, where he received in Breslau his doctor of philosophy.

B. published in "Yidishe khtbim fun a veyten krub", published as Mikha Yosef Brditsbsky, in the second part "Imdiges und heyteres", publisher "Literatur", Warsaw, 1912, later publishing through "Shtibl Publishers", Berlin, Trp"d] under the department "Stsenen un shpiele", the following dramatic works: "Shalom gevoren" (a scene), "Far'n bit-din" (two scenes), "Di shbueh (a scene), "Di irushh" (two scenes), "A nokhmitog beym rb in shtub" (a scene), "Di knih" (a scene), "Der shdukh" (a conversation), and "Broyt" (a scene).

• Zalmen Reyzen -- "Lexicon of Yiddish Literature', Vol. I, pp. 353-358.