He became a rabbi in Pleschen (now Pleszew), Prussia, and was appointed lecturer of the Mora-Leipziger Foundation at Breslau, on 1 April 1898. His major literary efforts related to the Tosefta and included the first critical edition based on variant manuscripts, particularly the Erfurt manuscript.
Literary works
Die Erfurter Handschrift der Tosefta (1876)
Die Tosefta nach den Erfurter und Wiener Handschriften (1880–1882)
Spruchbuch Enthaltend Biblische Sprüche aus dem Gebetbuche (1889)
Vokabularium und Grammatik zu den Hebräischen Versen des Spruchbuches I. (1890)