Born in December 1895 in Mikoleyve, Vilna Gubernia, Polish Lithuania.

He studied in a cheder, and as a youth of ten years came to his father in America.

Here he finished public school, and later worked by day in a business and attended high school in the evening.

In 1913 he organized a musical-literary group, and later arranged concerts.

In 1926 he issued "Teater un kunst, halb-yerlikher ilustritirter szhurnal, gevidmet tsu teater, muzik un ale andere tsveynen fun kunst (Theatre and art, semi-annual magazine journal, dedicated to the theatre, music and all other forms of art)". [fifty-four pages of Yiddish + twelve pages of English, journal format], and in April 1927 the second number of the same journal [162 pages, journal format].

M. E.