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Cherkassky, Yehuda (Lev)

Cherkassky, Yehuda (Lev)

He was born in 1879 in Ukraine and later became a singing teacher, and in 1905 immigrated to Eretz Israel where he worked as a laborer in the Stein Foundry in Jaffa, and in 1914, after World War I, he and his family were among the deportees; they returned to Israel in 1918. Then Yehudah and his wife Duba began to serve as directors of Beit Hehalutz near the port of Jaffa, where the new immigrants received material and spiritual relief. In the riots of 1921, both of them hurried to organize the protection of the house against the rioters. An Arab-Christian police officer offered to evacuate the family in time, but they refused to leave without the rest of the house. On 23 Nisan, 1.5.1921, they were both brutally murdered, and were brought to eternal rest in the cemetery on Trumpeldor Street, Tel Aviv,, leaving two sons and a daughter. His name was immortalized in the Haganah book in Tel Aviv, and the family history is also commemorated in the book “The Vow.”

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