Background
He was born in 1883, in Austria or Germany.
He was born in 1883, in Austria or Germany.
He was blind. As a young man, he worked as a reporter for the Berliner Morgen-Zeitung. He immigrated to Detroit, Michigan in the United States in 1905. He became a citizen in 1910.
He became the publisher of the Detroit Daily Chronicle in Detroit in 1914, and when that publication failed, he moved to Newark, New Jersey in 1921 and became the publisher of the Newark Jewish Chronicle.
The lack of advertising revenue from World World War II forced him into financial difficulty and he was forced to sell his own gravesite. He took his own life on January 1, 1943 when he jumped from a window of his room at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, New Jersey.