[1] His operettas include Der libling fun froyen (The Darling of Women), Malvinke vil azoy (That's How Malvinka Wants It), and Di sheyne Berta (Beautiful Bertha), which were orchestrated by Yitskhak Shlosberg (1877–1930).
In 1882, when he was still a teenager, he joined the Yiddish theater troupe of Natan Schwartz (an associate of Abraham Goldfaden) in Lublin, singing in the chorus without remuneration.
[1] Upon his return to Lublin, he worked for two years in a clerical position in the local government, then, beginning in 1890 served in the Russian military.
Later he worked for two years as a journalist for a Russian newspaper in Lublin.
[1] He was let go from that position after attracting the disfavor of local officials for publishing a story about the mistreatment of a Jew at the hands of the police.