Moving to Vienna in 1912, he spent his time sitting in cafes and teaching Hebrew to make ends meet.

When World War II erupted, Vogel and his daughter fled to southeastern France where Ada was recuperating in a sanatorium.

[3]Israeli literary scholar Dan Pagis discovered that he returned to Hauteville after his release from internment camp.

A semi-autobiographical novel, written in Yiddish and published in Hebrew as They All Went Out to Battle, is a Kafkaesque/carnivalesque depiction of deliberate, radical self-isolation in the French concentration camp.

The Hebrew publication is a version prepared by Menachem Perry, who made a short novel out of hundreds of pages of the Yiddish manuscript.

The only book of poems he published in his lifetime was Lifney Hasha'ar Ha'afel ("Before the Dark Gate"), in Vienna in 1923, but his poetry was influential with other Hebrew poets in the 1950s.