Early Life
He was born into a poor family in the Hassidic village of Kurenitz, near Vilnius (then in Russia), the son of a peddler.
When Zuckerman was 15, he began to feel the first stirrings of Zionism. He became seriously interested in this fledgling ideology in August 1903 when he heard Theodor Herzl speak in Vilnius.
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