Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur

לעקסיקאָן פֿון דער נײַער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור

A journalist and theater reviewer, he was born in Doline (Dolina), Galicia. He studied in religious elementary school and in a public school.

In 1897 he came to the United States. He worked in the business of wig-making. He was active in the unions, in the socialist movement, and in general Jewish affairs. He was also connected to the Yiddish theater.

In 1905 he began writing correspondence pieces for American and Canadian newspapers. He wrote humorous sketches, stories about Jewish life in Galicia, and articles on general Jewish topics and especially on Yiddish theater. He contributed work to:

Kibitser (Kibitzer),

Groyser Kundes (Great Prankster),

edited “Der Shtot-Sheygets” (The City Brat) within Y. Fefer’s Idishes Vokhenblat (Jewish Daily Newspaper),

Idishe Velt (Jewish World) in Cleveland,

Der Amerikaner (The American),

Dos Idishe Folk (The Jewish People),

Shikago (Chicago),

Der Idisher Almanakh (The Jewish Almanac),

Nyu-Yorker Vokhnblat (New York Weekly Newspaper), and

Idishe Tsaytung (Jewish Newspaper) in Buenos Aires.

From 1915 he was an internal contributor to

Morgn Zhurnal (Morning Journal) in New York, as reporter-interviewer and theater critic.

In book form:

Amerike, dos Land fun Vunder, Reportazhn (America, the Land of Wonder, Reportage Pieces) (Warsaw: Bzhoza, 1939), 332 pp.

There is an article about him with a portrait on p. 37 of the Yor Bukh fun dem Semeteri Department, Arbeter Ring 1947 (Year Book of the Cemetery Department, Workers Circle 1947):

As Zalmen Zilbertsvayg wrote: “His innumerable overviews, reviews, conversations, and characterizations of Yiddish theatrical showmen were an important component of Yiddish theatrical literature.”

He died in New York.