Menachem Ussishkin

On the letterhead of his personal stationery his name appeared as Михаилъ Моисеевичъ Усышкинъ [Transliterated = Mikhail Moiseyevich Usyshkin]: https://www.kedem-auctions.com/wp-content/uploads/ca/45/138.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Ussishkin Menachem Ussishkin (14 August 1863 - 2 October 1941) was a Russian-born Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund.

Avraham Menachem Mendel Ussishkin was born in Dubroŭna in the Belarusian part of the Russian Empire. In 1889, he graduated as a technical engineer from Moscow Technological Institute. Ussishkin was among the founders of the BILU movement and the Moscow branch of the Hovevei Zion. He also joined the Bnei Moshe society founded by Ahad HaAm. In 1891, he made his first trip to Palestine.

He served as Secretary of the First Zionist Congress. At the Sixth Zionist Congress he opposed Uganda plan. He was one of the Jewish delegates to the Paris peace conference after World War I.

In 1919, Ussishkin made aliyah to Palestine. In 1920 he was appointed head of the Zionist Commission in Palestine. In his pamphlet "Our Program" he advocated group settlement based on labour Zionism. Under his influence the Zionist movement actively supported the establishment of agricultural settlements, educational and cultural institutions, and Jewish polytechnic - later the Technion.

In 1923 he was elected President of the Jewish National Fund which he headed until his death. Ussishkin was behind major land acquisitions in the Hefer, Jezreel and Beit She'an valleys.

He died in 1941 at the age of 78. He is buried in Nicanor's Cave at the botanical gardens of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Mount Scopus.

Pat Odem writes,
Hello. I have proofs that Mendel Ussishkin had 3 children. Two girls and a boy, all born in Ekaterinoslav.

• 1891.11.15 (julian) Raisa
• 1894.12.13 (julian) Rakhil
• 1899.05.07 (julian) Samuil

Records can be easily found via Ekaterinoslav meric books on Dnipro(former Ekaterinoslav) region State archive site

אברהם מנחם-מנדל אוּסישְקין (14 באוגוסט 1863 - 2 באוקטובר 1941) היה מראשי הציונות, איש חובבי ציון וראש לקבוצה שכונתה ציוני ציון, אשר פעל רבות בקונגרסים הציוניים, יזם וניהל את "הכנסייה הארצישראלית" והקים מוסדות שונים של התנועה הציונית, ועמד בראש קרן קיימת לישראל