E. was born on 22 October 1891 in Lubin, Warsaw region, Poland, into a Chasidic family with a fashion business.

Until age fourteen he learned with rabbis and took secular studies with a private teacher. Then he was in Warsaw as an actor and teacher of Hebrew.

In 1913 he went away to foreign countries and learned in Berlin and in Paris. In 1915 he immigrated to America.

Debuting in the Warsaw "Di idishe vokh," E. later published stories in various New York Yiddish and Hebrew journals. For four years he collaborated  in "Di varhayt," and since 1919 in the editing of "Yidishes tageblat." A foreign novel, stories, translations (several published in special issues), feuilletons and articles. There E. also had written theatre reviews under his name and under the pseudonym of Sh. Rubinzon and David Warshavsky.

In "Lukh akhyerb" (New York, 1918), E. published under the pseudonym Sh. Rubinzon a large article, "Htyatrun hihudi bamrykh." (sp)

• Z. Reyzen -- "Lexicon of Yiddish Literature", Vol. II, pp. 812-815.