He was born in 1886 in Karelits, White Russia.

His father was a former military doctor who became a religious person after [shmd fun zeynes] a brother.

He received a traditional education.

He began to write at the age of thirteen, and since 1904 has become known as a poet, published in the Vilner "Yiddish World", 5, 1924, his dramatic poem "Tsibya", a play in three acts.
 

Zalmen Reyzen -- "Leksikon fun der yidisher literatur (Lexicon of Yiddish Literature)", Vol. I, pp. 81-6.