E. was  born on 10 May 1900 in Sukhari, Mohilev Gubernia, where he also learned in Talmud Torah.

At age eleven he immigrated with his family to America, where he learned in a public and high school and attended the third [premye: premium?] for his study "Hundred Years of Peace Between England and America".

In 1915 he graduated from the first Yiddish National Radical Folks School, where he also later was a teacher, and afterwards he studied in the university.

In 1920-21he debuted with children's songs in "Der groyser kunds". Afterwards he performed as a radical member in New York's "Forward", where in 1925-26 he published a series of study articles about the "lyrics" in the Yiddish operettas.

E., for several years is the redactor for the "Teaater zeyt" and since 1931 also for the "Movie-Zeyt" in the "Forward", for which he also writes the theatre and film critiques, articles about Yiddish theatre and actors, and about film offerings and film actors, known as H. Sakharyer, Milton Denley and Sidney Gordon.

As L. Honors, E. also writes in English about Yiddish theatre in the English section of the "Forward" and in other Yiddish-English issues.