Born on 18 January 1867 in Vitebsk, White Russia, into a family of great pedigree. After his marriage he tried trading, but without success. For thirty years he was a Hebrew teacher in Warsaw. During the First World War he was a manager and teacher in the Yiddish folksshul in Rypin, then in Pruszków. He wrote feuilletons, songs, articles and humoresques in "HaMelits," "Yudishes folkbslat," "Hium" in Peterburg, and in the Warsaw daily, "Der veg," "Unzer lebn," published the humorous holiday pages, "Kolbo'y (Catchall)," and the one-acters, "Itshe Meir geht tsu di vohlen" (Warsaw, 1907) "Di yudishe gmina," "Der shoymer" (was staged), "Gezukht un nit gefunen," two dramas (Warsaw 1929), as well as selected translations of the Tenakh (Bible)

Melech Ravitch characterized him as such:

"Moshe Dovid Vidrevitsh was not any kind of a writer. He was a man with a total licentiousness, with dignified facial features, with a very serious face and with eyes that always looked like a bronze statue, without which living black eyes were inserted and they must be kept forever, because they are eyes of a a dignified statue that must hold the city. Also the voice of M.D. Vidrevitsh was such a type of voice that sounds like a voice of a person who has been placed in a bronze statue, and she -- the voice -- must remain silent, because it does not fit anywhere else.

Viderevitsh didn't smile at anyone. At most, his face brought out an ironic smile from time to time. He didn't laugh at all. Vidrevitsh had many reasons for not smiling and not laughing. He did not think the least bit of Jews. He had a home with trouble and a mentally ill daughter as an allowance. Moreover, he loved his daughter and kept her at home. Besides that, he had other reasons not to smile, and not to laugh. He was too smart. He came from a great lineage. From a whole jeweler's business with golden genealogical chains, and besides all that, he simply had no sense of humor. Vidrevitsh did indeed write, as I have said above, that he was not a writer, and he did not write, but also printed in the very good periodicals of the former years. Even in "HaMelits," because he wrote just as much in Hebrew as in Yiddish, Vidrovitch did not write any stories, but humoresques, and he had no humor, absolutely none. This probably explains his absolute failure. He had a world with complaints to the world, but he did not come with his complaints to the first best [?]

...  In order to elevate a man to be his confidant, Vidrevitsh was able to visit one day at a time for a year, just like that -- good morning, good year, until he realized that the person was already worthy, that he, Vidrevitsh the yikhsn (priviliged person?], the contributor for "HaMelits," the man with the stiff-breasted shirt, with the fatermerder collar, should speak from his heart for him.

Once Vidrevitsh pulled himself together and issued a full edition of all of his works. In total, it was a bundle of one and a half hundred pages. Here there are already included the feuilletons, the humoresques, the one-act comedies, the jokes, and the main thing, the philosphical conversations with  some unknown counter-philosopher, who was a bit cynical. In the counter-philosopher, Vidrevitsh personified this evil in the world, and he -- the philospher was naturally the symbol of the good in the world. This work was called, "Gezukht un nit gefunen (Looked For and Not Found?)."

I will never forget the deep, tragic moment when Vidrevitsh came to me and told me that his mentally ill daughter, who was a hunchback, threw herself off the fourth floor an hour ago, her tiny bones lying on the stones of the yard.

This the one time that he lost his grip, collapsed and fainted."

According to B. Mark, Vidrevitsh passed away in January 1941 from hunger in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Vidrevitsh's published plays:
1) M.D. Vidrevitsh
Iṭshe Meir tsu di ṿahlen
A bild far di vohlen in gasudarst. Duma in varshe oder, Di yom-tov tubdige Menacha.
Warsaw 1907 (15 pages).
2) M.D. Vidrevitsh
Di Yudishe gmina
A bild in eyn akt fun di volen in yor 1908
Warsaw 1908 (16 pages)
2a) Di Yidishe gmina
Eynakter
Warsaw, 1928
3) M.D. Vidrevitsh
Der shoymer
A drame in eyn akt
Ferlag "Natsyonal," Warsaw (1914, 23 pages)

-- Melech Ravitch -- "Mayn leksikon," Montreal, 1947, pages 289-290.