Baruch Zuckerman, Founder of Poalei Zion, Co-founder of Wjc, Dies at 83

Baruch Zuckerman, founder of Poalei Zion, co-founder of the World Jewish Congress and a leading Zionist ideologist, died here yesterday aged 83. Mr. Zuckerman, who was born near Vilna, Lithuania, came to the United States in 1904, in which year he formed Poalei Zion of which he was national president. He co-founded the Histadrut campaign in 1923, after aiding David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi in obtaining volunteers for the Jewish Legion in World War I. In 1949 he became a member of the American section of the Jewish Agency, serving as head of its Latin American division. He was editor of the Poalei Zion weekly “Zichronot,” and a prolific writer who published a three-volume autobiography between 1963 and 1966. He was also known as an orator and as the mentor of Golda Meir. He settled in Israel after his retirement in 1956.