D. was born on 2 October 1887 [according to documents: 1883] in Lemberg, Galicia.

Her father was a master locksmith, then an entrepreneur.

She finished a six-class folkshul.

Her father, a friend of Yakov Ber Gimpel, got his daughter into his chorus, when she was about ten years old. From there D. went over to Ebell's troupe, where she debuted as "Doba" in "God, Man and Devil". Then she acted with Axelrad in Czernowitz, Ziegler in Vienna, returning to Axelrad, Yosha Ettinger in Rumania, Ber Hart in Galicia, then in the Vienna "Der fraye yidishe folksbine (The Free Jewish People's Theatre)", in 1922 with Baratov in Rumania, several years generally not acting, and in 1927-8 in [reklam=promotional] theatre in Vienna.

Specialty: Character roles.
 

M. E.