{{Short description|Israeli settler and diarist (1865–1932)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Chaim Chissin | native_name = | image = Chaim Chissin.jpg | alt = | caption = | other_names = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1865 | birth_place = Belarus | death_date = 1932 | death_place = | resting_place = | alma_mater = | occupation = Settler, diarist | spouse = | children = | relations = }} '''Chaim Chissin''', sometimes spelt '''Hayyim Hisin''', (1865-1932) was a Belarus-born emigrant to Palestine (now Israel), who first arrived in 1882. He was a member of Bilu, and a co-founder of Ahuzzat Bayit, later Tel Aviv.<ref name="jvlchissin">{{cite web |title=Chaim Chissin |url=https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/chaim-hissin |website=Jewish Virtual Library |access-date=May 6, 2026}}</ref> His diary was translated from Russian into English in 1976.<ref name="nationallibrary">{{cite web |title=A Palestine diary |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/books/NNL_ALEPH990005310660205171/NLI |website=The National Library of Israel |access-date=May 6, 2026}}</ref> ''The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles'' noted that he wrote about his experience with "poverty and desperation."<ref name="jjfoot">{{cite news |last1=Steinmetz |first1=Chaim |title=Just Put One Foot in Front of the Other |url=https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/384974/just-put-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other/ |access-date=May 6, 2026 |work=The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles |date=November 14, 2025}}</ref>
He is the namesake of Hisin Street in Tel Aviv.{{cn|date=May 2026}}
==Works== *{{cite book |last1=Chissin |first1=Chaim |title=A Palestine Diary: Memoirs of a Bilu Pioneer, 1882-1887, Translated from Russian by Frances Miller. |date=1976 |publisher=Herzl Press |location=New York}}
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