[3] Sachs became acquainted with the parnas of the Kaidany community, who introduced him to Maskilic literature,[3] including the works of Isaac Erter.

Erter's writings so impressed him that he considered immediately moving to Brody in order to study under him, but Sachs' early marriage, in accordance with the custom of that time, prevented him.

Sachs remained two years in Brody, and while there wrote an article in Hebrew on Russo-Hebrew scholars and on the education of the Jews in Russia; this he sent to Isaak Markus Jost, who translated it into German, and published it anonymously in his Israelitische Annalen (1840, nos.

He was brought to Kremenets, where he was thrown into prison, remaining in confinement five months, when he was liberated through the efforts of Isaac Baer Levinsohn.

[3] In Paris Sachs displayed great activity in various branches of Hebrew literature, but as he occupied himself with different subjects at one and the same time, most of his works remained unfinished.

[6] Of his Ha-Yonah only one number appeared (Berlin, 1851);[2] it contains among other things an article by Hayyim Selig Slonimski on the Jewish calendar according to the ancient Talmudists.