Born in 188.... in a village near Sharivke, not far from Proskurov, Podolia, into a Chasidic well-to-do family. He became an orphan in his fifth year, and his pious grandfather was his first rabbi, with whom he learned Chumash, Rashi, and later Gemora. Until age seventeen, he was brought to Podolia, where he learned with the best melamdim and also studied general subjects in a gymnasium.

In 1912 the future writer A. Beyzer found him in Proskurov, completing the two-class Russian kreyz school and enared income from giving lessons in Russian. He then heard there about a legal worker's party, which had staged a strike.

In order to avoid military service, he "gegnbet the borders" and went away to America.

Here he became a teacher in the Yiddish schools, and he had the opportunity to translate and adapt children's stories for Engun, Bialik, Berkowitz, Yehuda Steinberg et al., Hebrew writers, and they published in "Kinder zhurnal (Children's Journal)", where he also printed several plays for children.

S. had a number of chapters from his memoirs published in "Amerikaner" under the name "A yid fun podlia", and in other editions, and strove to issue it in a book.