Career
He mostly wrote in Hebrew, but also wrote poetry and dramas in Yiddish. His first collection was published in 1835. Gotlober"s last name is often transliterated as Gottlober.
ABG was a maskil, a leader in the haskalah, the nineteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment in Russia and Eastern Europe.
While his literary output is no longer widely known, he was important for several reasons: As a social observer and memoirist, who had the fortune to live long enough to describe the social and political conditions of the 1820s and 1830s for audiences of the 1880s. Scholars widely cite his memoirs (, or Memoirs and Travels), his contribution to Sholom Aleichem"s Yudishe Folks-Bibliothek, and his articles in his own periodical Ha-Boker Or (The Morning Light) and in other periodicals.