Born in 1881 in Zhelikhov, Siedlce Gubernia, Poland, into a poor family.

He learned in a cheder and in his early youth became a worker.

For twenty-five years he took to various trades in Warsaw and Lodz.

In 1904 he debuted in the Yiddish literature and soon acquired a name for himself, which placed him in the first rank of Yiddish fiction.

V. published his drama "Knah un tauh", earlier printed in the "Teater-velt (Theatre World)" 6-17, 1908-9.

Afterwards he published with the publishing house "Progress", Warsaw 191, p. 101, 16°, and "Kasper" (p. 85, 16°, in which he performed in Lodz through the "Dramatic Arts", published in the collection book "Di yungend-shtime" (Vilna 1908), a single drama "In ervertung", and he published his work (Warsaw, published by B. Shimin) the drama scenes "Rbudhle" and "R' Yuel".

V.  in "Di yudishe zamelbikher" (1918-19), there was published the one-act dramatic poem "In tog fun gerikht" -- a min politishe samire in gramen about the Polish-Yiddish relationship.

In the journal "Undzer hofenung" (Warsaw), which V. edited for, he wrote often about Yiddish theatre, dramaturgy and acting.
 

• Zalmen Reyzen -- "Leksikon fun der yidisher literatur (Lexicon of Yiddish Literature)", Vol. I, pp. 967-72.