1858-February 1922
He was born in Biłgoraj, Poland, descended from a major pedigree. He devoted much time to studying Talmud and commentators. He was interested in genealogical speculation. He lived in Kolomaye, several years in Budapest, again in Galicia, and collapsed out of hunger on the streets of Warsaw where he had come to sell his last religious text, Haemuna hakeduma (The ancient faith).
In Yiddish: Tsayt-Lehre, Iberzetst fun Sefer Horaat Shaa, tsu Ferhyeten Yudishe Kinder in der Yetstiger Tsayt Zay Zollen Blayben Frum Und nisht Ferdorben Veren in Yudishkeyt (Teaching for the Times, a Translation of the Text Horaat Shaa, to Protect Jewish Children in the Present Times So That They Remain Pious and Not Be Corrupted in their Jewishness) (Kolomaye: Sh. Taykher, 1912), 16 pp., published anonymously.
He died in Warsaw.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.