Born in 1867 in Zigivke, Podolia Gubernia, Ukraine.

A few of the Yampoler rabbis had thickness[?] in authority and at a certain time were slaughtered[?].

In 1888 he came to America.

Here for a short time he was a worker, and after his marriage in 1891 he became an actor with Adler, then went by himself into an itinerant troupe for eleven years across the American provinces, playing a character-comedian.

In St. Louis, D. developed an inflammation of the lungs and died there on 23 May 1906.

J.'s children: Hymie, Irving and Henrietta, who acted on the Yiddish stage.
 

Sh.E. and M. E. from his wife Bessie Jacobson.