Born in 1889 [according to Reyzen -- 1892] in Lipsk, Radom region, Poland, into a Chasidic family. Received a strong religious education. Learned in a cheder and yeshiva and went on to become a ritual slaughterer. Under the effect of Michael Veber he published in 1909 in "Unzer leben" a Tisha b'Av picture, then published in other periodical editions, and collected folksongs by Noakh Prilutski.

In 1913,  for the First World War, he immigrated to Toronto, Canada, where he immediately threw himself into societal work and began to write in the Canada Yiddish press. 1915 -- became a contributor to the "Idisher zhurnal", the daily Yiddish newspaper in Toronto, and in 1922 became one of the owners of the newspaper, since 1927 manager of the newspaper, maintaining at the same time further is editorial contributions, until 1931 when he left the newspaper and opened a private printing shop.

Since 1916 he has often written reviews about Yiddish theatre, and composed the play "Der farbrekher", a lebensbild in four acts (dramatized from his novel, printed in a newspaper), staged on 26 January 1923 in the "National" Theatre in Toronto by Bernard Elving's troupe, and "In azoy lebn", a one-acter, staged in the "Standard" Theatre in Toronto, by Morris Novikov, as well as a one-acter "Der antoyster man".