 He received his Talmudical education at Zhagory, in the house of his uncle Simon Hurvitz, and graduated in 1865 from the Gymnasium of Mitau, remaining there until 1874, when he was appointed inspector of the Jewish school at Tukum, Courland.His first articles in Hebrew appeared in ""Ha-Maggid"" in 1857; he contributed extensively to that paper and to "Ha-Melitz", "Ha-Shachar", and other Hebrew periodicals.He was also for many years a contributor to the German "Rigasche Zeitung".