[1] Born to Jewish-Ukrainian merchant parents, in 1905 Féder found himself involved in the revolutionary Bund Labor Movement.

The trip's impact on him yielded many of his most notable paintings, such as "Juif à barbe tenant un plateau" ("Bearded Jew holding a tray").

When Féder returned to Paris, he brought many of these paintings back with him, which garnered him recognition in the Parisian artistic community.

[1] When Nazi troops marched across France in 1942, Féder, aged 52, tried to get in contact with the French Resistance but was caught by the Pétain militia.

[1] He continued to paint following this, including a series of 45 illustrations created for a book of poetry by French poet Arthur Rimbaud.