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Schussheim, Leading Journalist in Argentina, Dies

February 15, 1955
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Aharon Leib Schussheim, noted journalist and Labor Zionist leader, died here today at the age of 77. Born in Radem, Galicia, he joined the Poale Zion movement as a young man and eventually became chairman of the Austrian branch of the party.

He worked on newspapers in Poland and Austria and in 1914 he became editor of the Yiddish daily Weiner Morgenzeitung in Vienna. In 1926 he immigrated to Argentina where be became correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Later, he joined the staff of the Buenos Aires Jewish daily Di Yiddishe Zeitung and became the leading member of the editorial staff of that paper, which is the largest Jewish newspaper in Latin America.

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