Schussheim, Aaron Leib
SCHUSSHEIM, AARON LEIB
SCHUSSHEIM, AARON LEIB (1879–1955), early member of *Po'alei Zion. Born in Radymno, Galicia, Schussheim became a basket weaver when a boy. In 1905 his search for work brought him to Cracow, where he joined the Po'alei Zion movement. After the publication of his first articles in Yiddish, he became the editor of the Po'alei Zion Yiddish newspaper Der Yidisher Arbeter in 1906. Schussheim continued to work at his trade at the same time. Years later the previous coeditor S. *Kaplansky said of him: "In the basket weaver of Cracow we found a born journalist," and the period of Schussheim's editorship was indeed the paper's finest era. He educated his readers in the principles of socialism and Judaism and also developed the paper's literary section. Schussheim served in the Austrian army during World War i and after his demobilization continued his journalistic career in Vienna and Galicia. In 1926 he emigrated to Argentina, and was a member of the editorial board of the Yiddish daily Di Yidishe Tsaytung in Buenos Aires until his death. He wrote hundreds of articles and essays for the paper, a few of which were published in his book Fun Klayne un Groyse Zakhen (1949). He also published a booklet on Menahem *Ussishkin (Yid., 1943).
[Mendel Singer]