Aryeh Leib Schochet

[1] His mother Tziporah was the daughter of Rabbi Yoseph Zev Wolf Segal of Balta, his father was Yaakov Nissan.

[citation needed] In his book, he related how his uncle Reuven Wolf Segal took care of Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Abba Shapiro of Slavuta, while he recuperated from being lashed 1,500 times by the Russian government.

The brothers were accused of not having the proper censorship license, their printing house was shut down, and they were sent to Siberia.

[citation needed] Aryeh Leib became rabbi of the Ukrainian town of Vradiivka in Mykolaiv Oblast, near the southern border of modern Ukraine.

Aryeh Leib died in his Brooklyn home on Stone Avenue on December 19, 1928, and was buried in Old Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens.