Poet. As a young art student in Vienna, he began writing modernist poetry in German, but upon returning to his hometown in 1907 switched to writing in Yiddish. In 1908, he emigrated to New York City and there he became associated with a group of Yiddish poets called Di Yunge (The Young Ones), a literary movement whose aim was to move Yiddish literature away from its sweatshop and labor roots and to turn it into more of an art form. He published his first book of poetry in 1919, In Nyu York (In New York), and his second book, Di Goldene Pave (The Golden Peacock), was published in 1924. He also wrote for satirical magazines and Frayhayt (Freedom), a communist Yiddish newspaper.
Poet. As a young art student in Vienna, he began writing modernist poetry in German, but upon returning to his hometown in 1907 switched to writing in Yiddish. In 1908, he emigrated to New York City and there he became associated with a group of Yiddish poets called Di Yunge (The Young Ones), a literary movement whose aim was to move Yiddish literature away from its sweatshop and labor roots and to turn it into more of an art form. He published his first book of poetry in 1919, In Nyu York (In New York), and his second book, Di Goldene Pave (The Golden Peacock), was published in 1924. He also wrote for satirical magazines and Frayhayt (Freedom), a communist Yiddish newspaper.
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