Stage name of Asa Yoelson

Russian-born US singer and entertainer. Popular in Broadway theatre and vaudeville, he was chosen to star in the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer 1927.

As a child he sang in the synagogue where his father was a cantor.

At the age of 13 he made his first stage appearance in Children of Ghetto

He toured in vaudeville with a company known as Dockstaders Minstrels;

minstrel- style singing in blackface make-up became Jolsons trademark.

He died in San Frascisco after returning from entertaining troops in Korea and Japan.

Bro. Al was a member of St. Cecile Lodge No.586 New York City.

Raised:- July. 1st. 1913.

Stamps Issued:- U.S.A. 1994 S.G. No. 2930.

U.S.A. 1986 S.G. No. 2222.