 He later settled in North America, where he was to work briefly and unsuccessfully in the millinery industry in New York City.He then settled in Toronto where he began his brief career as a journalist and scholar.He is the author of several books in Yiddish as well as English, as well as many journalistic articles in these languages, and was publisher and editor-in-chief of the Hebrew Journal (Der Yidisher Zshurnal), a key Jewish newspaper in Toronto.