M. was born on 25 December 1882 in Ungeny, Bessarabia, to poor parents. His father was a carpenter. Until age twelve he learned in a cheder, then he took to his father's trade, and at the same time by himself learned Hebrew and a little Russian.

Under the impression of the Shomer-Bloyshteyn literature, he began to write at the age of eighteen or nineteen small things and he published correspondences in "Der yud". He was active as a union organizer and arranged "amateur" performances, in which he also participated.

In 1905 he immigrated to America and debuted anonymously with a story in the London "Idisher ekspres". First in August 1906 he published under his name a story in Kalmen Marmor's "Idisher kemfer" and from then on he was often a collaborator in various periodical issues. In 1912 he became for four years a colonist in the western part of America, then he returned to Philadelphia, were he worked now as an editor-ember in "Di idishe velt".

M. for seven years directed the theatre department at the newspaper, in which he wrote long treatises about offerings in the Yiddish theatre (especially about Hirshbein's plays), and he published many interviews with Yiddish actors and especially encouraged the actors Muni Weisenfreund and Ludwig Satz during their first performances on the Yiddish stage in America.

M. issued in book form a story "A rge glik" and had in "Tseyt-geyst" (4 October 1897) published "Hava" (a scene in one act), t