Reuben Guskin, prominent Jewish labor leader and head of the Hebrew Actors Union for more than 30 years, died here today. He was 64 years old.
Active in the Socialist movement in Russia, Guskin escaped to the United States in 1904 after being sought by the Czarist police for participating in Jewish self-defense in Bobroisk, his native town. Following his arrival in New York, he took an active part in the Jewish labor movement and soon became the central figure in the American Jewish theatre world. He was president of the United Hebrew Trades, the large Jewish fraternal order Workmen’s Circle, and actively participated in all efforts undertaken on behalf of the labor movement in Israel.
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