M. was born on 2 March 1883 in the village of Mishnun in the Kovno region of Lithuania. Her father maintained a bar. As a child for for years M. learned Hebrew and at five -- she read Russian. Later she had, from a Russian-German learning book, learned to read German. She learned Tenach and read Shomer and Blotshteyn's novels. At the age of six she developed an illness, and from this became deaf. She received a tsekaletshet language. At the age of fifteen she came with a sister to America and to her brothers. Here for three years she learned in a institute for "deaf-dumb", then she worked in shops, and before this she learned English.

Encouraged by Sh. Yanovsky, the former editor of "Fraye arbeter shtime", M. translated into Yiddish the English stories, which were published in the "Fraye arbeter shtime", "Forward" and "Tsayt-gayst".

Due to a special inclination for Scandinavian literature, M. translated (from English) the Danish drama "Lingaard and Company, a drama in four acts" ("Fraye arbeter shtime"), 7 August 1915--8 January 1916) and "Karen Borgeman, a drama in four acts", ("Fraye arbeter shtime", 10 June--22 July 1916), both by Hialmar Bergstrom.

M. also translated (from English) the Spanish one-acter "In a