He immigrated to the United States and settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He wrote numerous articles on economic, social, and legal problems.

He married Rachel "Rae" Savage, and they had two daughters, author Naomi Feigelson Chase and Judith Specter.

[4] He was re-elected to the Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses and served until his resignation in 1938, having been elected judge of the common pleas court of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

He is buried in West View Cemetery of the Rodef Shalom Congregation in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh.