Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur

לעקסיקאָן פֿון דער נײַער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור

Born in Pinsk, he was a painter and caricaturist. He studied in religious schools as well as in a Russian school. He came to the United States in 1905.

In 1909 he published, using the pseudonym Lolo, his first caricature — of Yankev Gordin in Der Groyser Kundes (The Great Prankster). He later contributed work as a draftsman for various newspapers and journals. In his last years, he was the regular caricaturist for the Forverts (Forward). He illustrated a number of Yiddish books.

In 1953 he published an album of eighty pictures, Di Amoliker Ist Said in Bilder (The East Side of the Past in Pictures) with a forward by Dovid Einhorn. A number of his caricatures were reprinted in English periodical publications.

In 1912 he received an award from the national artists academy in New York.