He was the founder of Zuckerman Printing [he], publisher of the monthly issue Torah of Zion [he], and one of the heads of the committee that established Beit Yisrael in the 1880s.
[2] When they arrived in Jerusalem, he began studying at yeshiva and was one of the senior students of Shlomo Zalman Lavi [he], the founder of Mea Shearim.
On the night of his Bar Mitzvah, he was brought under the chuppah with a girl from Jerusalem,[1] as was customary during the time period, but the marriage did not succeed.
During this time, his daughter fell ill with diphtheria, and he spend large funds in order to keep her healthy, but she passed away in 1885.
He established a branch of the printing house in New York City, but it closed after 7 months and he returned to Jerusalem.
[8][9] The magazine initially printed in a batch of 500 copies, and the editor-in-chief was his father-in-law, Yaakov Orenstein, while Zuckerman served as the editorial coordinator.