He studied in a public high school and in the Universities of Vienna and Montpellier. In high school he became a "Hove tsiyon" (Lover of Zion). In Vienna he belonged to a student group "Kadima" (Onwards). He was also a member of the Odessa committee of the "lovers of Zion" He contributed to Smolenskin's Hashahar (The dawn), and he published in Odessa a religious work entitled Torat hahaim (The law of life) and stood close to Bialik and Ishernikhovski. In Odessa he founded 'Di kopike biblyotek" (The one-kopek library) which brought out dozens of pamphlets on national and Zionist issues. He participated in Zionist congresses and was a member of the great Zionist action committee. At the sixth congress he was at the head of the Odessan "nine speakers" (against the Uganda project). In Vilna ni 1903, he published in Russian the book Sionizm, nauchno-populiarnoe izlozhenie sushchnosti i istori sionistichestego dvizheniia (Zionism, popular scientific account of the essence and history of the Zionist movement). It was the recipient of a prize from the Moscow pa- tron Velikovski and appeared in Hebrew and Yiddish translations as wel. He published in Odessa, where he practiced medicine, the Russian Jewish pe- riodicals Evreiskaia misl' (Jewish thought) and Kadima. Over the years 1918-1921, at the time of the Ukrainian pogroms against the Jews, he was among the leaders of the relief committee for the Jewish victims.