(1834-1910)
Ukrainian Hebrew writer. He was born in Lewkiow in the Ukraine and from 1854 to 1859 taught at the government school for Jews in Zhitomir. Later he served as a physician in Kiev. He wrote verse satires for the Hebrew socialist papers, criticizing supporters of the Haskalah, the Hasidim, and rich communal leaders. After the pogroms of the 1880s he joined the Hibbat Zion movement.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.