 Hofstein protested the banning of Hebrew and the persecution of Hebrew writers, arousing the suspicion of the authorities.He therefore emigrated first to Germany and then to Palestine in 1923.In Palestine he wrote both in Hebrew and Yiddish and published in Yiddish the dramatic poem "Sha'ul–Der Letster Meylekh fun Yisroel" ("Saul–The Last King of Israel", 1924) and an expressionistic drama "Meshiekhs Tsaytn" ("Messianic Times", 1925).