Born on 19 February 1886 in Rohatshov (Rogachev), Mohilever Gubernia, Ukraine, in a Chasidic-[lumdisher] family.

He studied in Vilna and afterwards in Bern.

Residing in London in 1908, D. there began his journalistic work by writing correspondences for the Yiddish press, later editing various journals in London, and since 1916 settled in America where he is on the editorial staff with the local Yiddish press. Since 1920 he is on the editorial staff of "[Der] Tog" in New York.

D. writes as a theatre critic and composed in 1920 "Der ndr", a musical drama; in 1922 "Fremd blut", a drama of Jewish life in America.

Zalmen Reyzen -- "Leksikon fun der yidisher literatur (Lexicon of Yiddish Literature)", Vol. I, pp. 697-8.