YUDE-ARYE TSUKER

YUDE-ARYE TSUKER (ca. 1910-ca. 1942)

            He was born in Shedlets (Siedlce), Poland.  He served as director of the local Jewish bank in Siedlce.  He began at an early age to write for Siedlce’s Undzer veg (Our way), organ of Agudat-Yisrael, using the pen names Sholem Yelin and M. Shvartsman, in which he published treatments of general Jewish community matters.  He also contributed to Togblat (Daily newspaper) in Warsaw.  He was murdered with his family around 1942 by the Germans.

Source: Gvies-eydes fun harav meyer shvartsman (Testimony of Rabbi Meyer Shvartsman) (Winnipeg, Canada).

Yankev Kahan

N.B. See the entry for “Sholem Yelin” in this series.