Aryeh Leib Yaffe (; June 5, 1876 - March 11, 1948) was a

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poet, journalist and editor of

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newspaper. Leib Yaffe was born in Grodno,

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. He spent his university years in Germany. A life-long champion of the Zionist cause, he immigrated to

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in 1920, where he became chief editor of

. He founded and served as director-general of Keren Hayesod. In 1924, he visited Pinsk to promote the Zionist cause and received a warm welcome from the Jewish community. In 1942, he was sent on a mission to South America, and in December of that year he traveled to United States as an emissary of the Zionist Movement. On March 11, 1948, he and 12 others were killed by a car bomb in the courtyard of the Jewish Agency building in

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.Help Me Get Home, Brother
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's Talpiot neighborhood, in

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, and in Beersheba.

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*The personal papers of Leib Yaffe are kept at the
Central Zionist Archives
in Jerusalem
photos of Yaffe
in the

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