Career
He was the only Estonian playwright among his contemporaries whose plays were untouched by Soviet censorship and reached other Soviet states. He has been described as the leading Stalinist in Soviet Estonian drama. In the 1960s his work was described as "ideologically militant".
He was the head of the Estonian Writers" Union in 1939–1940 and in 1944–1946 (then known as Writers" Union of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic).
Near the Endla Theatre in Pärnu stands a monument for Jakobson.