Solomon Goldman Papers

Manuscript Collection No. 203

1923-1955. 9.2 Linear ft.

ACCESS AND PROVENANCE

The SOLOMON GOLDMAN PAPERS were donated to the American Jewish Archives by Rabbi Goldman's daughter, Ms. Naomi Zemel of Chicago, Illinois in March, 1984.

Property rights to the materials are held by the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights have not been dedicated to the public. Literary rights to materials authored by Goldman are held by the Goldman heirs, others are held by the individual author or his/her heirs. Questions concerning rights should be addressed to the Director of the American Jewish Archives.

The SOLOMON GOLDMAN PAPERS are open to all users. The original manuscript collection is available in the reading room of the American Jewish Archives.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH top

Solomon Goldman was born in Kozin, Volhynia, Russia on August 18, 1893. He came to the United States as a young child and received his early education in the New York City public schools. He graduated from New York University and did graduate work at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. He received his Jewish education at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Yeshivah, where he studied for six years, and at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he was ordained as a rabbi in 1918.

Goldman's first pulpit was at Congregation B'nai Israel in Brooklyn, New York, where he served from 1917-1918. He then moved to Cleveland, Ohio where he was rabbi at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun from 1919-1922 and the Jewish Center, which he founded, from 1922-1929. From Cleveland he moved to Chicago, Illinois to become rabbi at Congregation Anshe Emet, where he remained until his death in 1953.

Goldman was an active Zionist, serving as co-chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, and as president of the Zionist Organization of America 1938-1940. He was active in many other Jewish and civic affairs, including being principal of the first, Young Judea training school for leaders, founder of the Graetzians, Brooklyn Judeans, co-founder of the New York University Menorah Society, President of the Histadruth Ivrith of America, member of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation Commission, and member of the executive committees of the Chicago League for Industrial Democracy, the United Synagogue of America, the Rabbinical Assemmbly of America, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Goldman also lectured widely and authored several books, including: A Rabbi Takes Stock (1931), The Jew and the Universe (l936), Crisis and Decision (1938), Undefeated (1940), an three volumes of a study of the Bible and its influence on world literature, The Book of Books (1948), In the Beginning (1949), and From Slavery to Freedom (1958).

Goldman married the former Alice Lipkowitz on June 23, 1918. They had two children: Geulah (Mrs. Joseph Epstein), and Naomi (Mrs. Albert Zemel). Solomon Goldman died in Chicago on May 14, 1953, at the age of 59.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE top

The SOLOMON GOLDMAN PAPERS (1923-1955) describe the career of Solomon Goldman, rabbi, author, and past president of the Zionist Organization of America. The collection consists mainly of correspondence, but also includes sermons, writings and personal items. The span dates for the collection are 1923-1955 with the bulk of the materials spanning the years 1935-1945. The Papers are divided into three series:

A. CORRESPONDENCE
B. SERMONS AND WRITINGS
C. MISCELLANEOUS

The CORRESPONDENCE series (1923-1955) makes up the bulk of the collection, consisting of twenty-one and one-half Hollinger boxes of correspondence, reports, minutes and some newsclippings. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the name of the person or organization. Letters are arranged chronologically within each folder. Access to some of the more important subjects and individuals may be made through the Box and Folder List and the Subject Tracings at the end of the inventory. Of special significance in this series are the two and one-half boxes of materials concerning the Zionist Organization of America. Goldman was president of the ZOA from 1938 to 1940 and these files contain an abundance of material on the Zionist movement in the late 1930's and early 1940's.

The SERMONS AND WRITINGS series (1932-1952) consists of one Hollinger box of sermons, speeches, articles, and manuscripts. All the sermons and writings are arranged alphabetically according to title and the appendix at the end of the inventory gives a complete listing of all the titled sermons in this series.

SERIES C. MISCELLANEOUS (1943-1953) consists of one-half Hollinqer box of biographical data, tributes, letters of condolence, photographs, and letters of congratulations on the occasion of Goldman's thirty-fifth anniversary in the rabbinate and the seventieth anniversary of the founding of Goldman's congregation, Congregation Anshe Emet, Chicago, Illinois.

BOX AND FOLDER LISTING top

Box  Folder    Contents

SERIES A. CORRESPONDENCE

1    1         A, General
     2         American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs 1938
     3         American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs 1939
     4         American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs 1940
     5         American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs 1941
     6         American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs Ja-F 1942
     7         American Emeraency Committee for Zionist Affairs Mr-Apr 1942
     8         American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs My-Ag 1942

2    1         American Friends of the Hebrew University 1938-1946
     2         American Jewish Committee 1933; 1939; 1946
     3         American Jewish Congress 1938-1939
     4         American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 1939-1946
     5         Avukah 1938-1941
     6         B, General
     7         Ben-Gurion, David 1938-1946
     8         Bernstein, Philip 1938-1939
     9         Blumenfield, Samuel M. 1932-1941
     10        B'nai B'rith 1938-1939; 1941
     11        B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation 1934-1941; 1945
     12        Brandeis, Louis D. 1938-1941
     13        Breslau, Isadore 1939

3    1         Ca-Cl, General
     2         Co-lu, General
     3         College of Jewish Studies 1934-1939; 1945-1946
     4         Cornell University 1941; 1945
     5         D. General
     6         Dewey, Charles S. 1941-1944
     7         E, General
     8         Eisenstein, Ira 1941-1944; 1950-1952
     9         Ellenbogen, Henry 1938-1939, n.d.
     10        Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe 1944
     11        Engelman, Nate 1941-1944
     12        Epstein, Albert K. 1935; 1938-1947

4    1         Fa-Fe, General
     2         Feigin, Samuel I. 1941-1946
     3         Fi-Fra, General
     4         Finkelstein, Louis 1938; 1941-1942
     5         Finkelstein, Louis 1943-1944
     6         Finkelstein, Louis 1945-1953
     7         Fisher, Mendel N. 1939; 1941-1946
     8         Fre-Fu, General
     9         Frisch, Daniel 1941-1946
     10        Ga-Gh, General
     11        Gamoran, Emanuel 1938-1946
     12        Gaynor, Nathan 1944-1946

5    1         Gi-Gl, General
     2         Ginzberg, Louis 1923; 1938-1946; 1950-1952
     3         Gol, General
     4         Goldin, Judah 1941-1946; 1950-1953
     5         Goldman, Israel M. 1938; 1941-1946
     6         Goldmann, Nahum 1941-1946
     7         Goldsmith, Samuel A. 1938; 1941-1946
     8         Goldstein, David A. 1938-1946
     9         Goldstein, Israel 1939-1946
     10        Golub, Jacob S. 1939-1940
     11        Gom-Gra, General
     12        Gordis, Robert 1938; 1942-1946
     13        Gordon, Alber 1941-1946
     14        Gre-Gu, General
     15        Green, Emanuel 1940-1942; 1945
     16        Greenberg, Simon 1938-1946

6    1         Ha-Ham, General
     2         Habimah 1938-1940
     3         Hadas, Gersnon 1935-1945
     4         Hadassah 1932-1940
     5         Hadassah 1941-1046; 1953
     6         Hadoar 1931-1941; 194@-1952, n.d.
     7         Halbert, Joseph 1939; 1941-1944
     8         Halperin, Abraham 1940-1946, n.d.
     9         Halpern, Abraham E. 1938-1946, n.d.
     10        Han-Hec, General
     11        Harper and Brothers 1930-1944
     12        Harris, Beniamin R. 1938; 1941-1946
     13        Haydon, A. Eustace 1931-1944, n.d.
     14        Hebrew Organization Society of Palestine and America 1941-1943
     15        Hechalutz Organization of America 1938-1941; 1946
     16        Hel-Hir, General

7    1         Heller, Bernard 1932-1942; 1945
     2         Heller, James G. 1938-1946, n.d.
     3         Histadruth Ivrith 1933-1946
     4         Ho-Hy, General
     5         Honor, Leo L. 1932-1940
     6         Honor, Leo L. 1941-1946
     7         Hurwitz, Henry 1931-1942; 1945-1946
     8         I, General
     9         Israel, Edward L. 1938-1941
     10        Ivriah 1933-1936; 1943
     11        Ja, General
     12        Jacobs, Sidney J. 1940-1943; 1946
     13        Jacobson, Samuel F. 1939-1946
     14        Jacobson, Solomon 1940-1945

8    1         Je, General
     2         Jewish Agency for Palestine 1937-1940
     3         Jewish Agency for Palestine 1941; 1943-1944
     4         Jewish Charities of Chicago 1933-1935; 1938; 1941-1943
          5         Jewish Education Fund 1933-1937
     6         Jewish Frontier 1939-1943
     7         Jewish National Fund of America 1938
     8         Jewish National Fund of America Ja-Je 1939
     9         Jewish National Fund of America S 1939-1946
     10        Jewish People's Institute 1938-1944; 1946
     11        Jewish Publication Society of America 1938-1940

9    1         Jewish Publication  Society of America 1941-1946
     2         Jewish Telegraphic Agency 1931-1939
     3         Jewish Telegraphic Agency 1940-1942; 1944-1945
     4         Jewish Theological Seminary of America 1938-1940
     5         Jewish Theological Seminary of America 1941-1945; 1950
     6         Jewish Welfare Board 1941-1943
     7         Jewish Welfare Fund 1938-1939
     8         Jewish Welfare Fund 1940-1946
     9         Jo-Ju, General
     10        Joint Committee for Youth Affairs 1939-1940
     11        Jung, Moses 1939-1941; 1943
     12        Junior Hadassah 1938-1941

10   1         Kab-Kan, General
     2         Kadushin, Max 1931-1944; 1946
     3         Kahn, Benjamin M. 1940-1944
     4         Kap-Kaz, General
     5         Kaplan, Mordecai M. 1930-1946; 1949-1951, n.d.
     6         Karpf, Maurice J. 1939-1941
     7         Kaufman, Reuben R. 1938; 1941-1946
     8         Kaufmann, Edmund I. 1938-1946
     9         Ke, General
     10        Keiser, Samuel J. 1934-1945
     11        Keren Hayesod 1938-1944
     12        Ki-Kl, General
     13        Kisch, Guido 1939-1946

11   1         Klausner, Gustave 1939-1946
     2         Kleinman, Philip 1930-1942; 1945-1946
     3         Kn-Ko, General
     4         Knox, Frank K. 1939-1943
     5         Kr-Ku, General
     6         La, General
     7         Lamdan, Isaac 1942-1953, n.d.
     8         Landauer, Georg 1939-1940
     9         Landman, Isaac 1941-1942
     10        Lang, Leon S. 1938-1952
     11        Lasker, Albert D. 1935-1945
     12        Lassen, Abraham L. 1939-1946
     13        Lea-Let, General
     14        League for Labor Palestine 1936-1940
     15        Lelyveld, Arthur J. 1944-1953
     16        Leon Blum Colony in Palestine 1938
     17        Lev-Lew, General
     18        Levavy, Zvi 1940-1942
     
12   1         Levinthal, Israel Herbert 1939-1946
     2         Levinthal, Louis E. 1938-1941
     3         Levinthal, Louis E. 1942-1946; 1952
     4         Levitsky, Louis M. 1942-1943
     5         Levy, Fel ix A. 1931-1943; 1945
     6         Lewisohn, Ludwig 1935-1940; 1942
     7         Li, General
     8         Liebman, Joshua Loth 1938-1946; 1950-1952, n.d.
     9         Linfield, H.S. 1941-1945; 1951; 1953
     10        Lipkowitz, Irving D. 1938-1944
     11        Lipsky, Louis 1938-1940; 1950
     12        Lisitzky, E.E. 1938-1946; 1952-1953, n.d.
     13        Livingston, Julius 1938-1950
     14        Ll-Ly, General
     
13   1         Lourie, Arthur 1941-1945
     2         Mac-Man, General
     3         Mann, Louis L. 1931-1941
     4         Mar-Mc, General
     5         Margulies, Morris 1933-1937
     6         Margulies, Morris 1938
     7         Margulies, Morris 1939
     8         Marx, Alexander 1939-1946
     9         Masada 1938-1942
     10        Me, General
     11        Mendelsohn, S. Felix 1931-1946
     12        Mi-My, General
     13        Miner, Julius H. 1941-1943; 1945-1946
     14        Mirelman, Jose 1940-1942; 1948, n.d.
     15        Mizrachi Organization of America 1938-1940; 1944

14   1         Monsky, Henry 1935; 1938-1944
     2         Montor, Henry 1938-1939
     3         Montor, Henry 1941-1942
     4         Montor, Henry 1943-1946
     5         N, General
     6         Nadich, Judah 1938; 1940; 1952
     7         National Labor Committee for Palestine 1938-1941
     8         Neuman, Abraham A. 1940-1952
     9         Neumann, Emanuel 1940
     10        Newman, Louis I. 1930-1939; 1950
     11        Norman, Edward A. 1938-1940; 1946
     12        O-Pe, General
     13        Palestine and Middle East Economic Magazine 1938-1939
     14        Palestine Histadrut Campaign 1931; 1945-1946
     15        Ph-Pu, General
     16        Potts, Isaac 1939-1953
     17        Pro-Palestine Federation of America 1938-1939

15   1         Ra-Re, General
     2         Rabbinical Assembly of America (Institute on the Future of Judaism)                  				1942-1946
     3         Ri-Ru, General
     4         Ribalow, Menahem 1940-1944
     5         Roback, A.A. 1941
     6         Rosenthal, Judah 1945-1946; 1950-1953, n.d.
     7         Rothstein, Samuel 1945-1946
     8         Sa, General
     9         Sachar, Abram L. 1938; 1941-1946; 1950-1953
     10        Samuel, Maurice 1939; 1945-1949
     11        Scha-Schr, General
     12        Scht-Scliw, General
     13        Schwartz, Benjamin H. 1938; 1945-1946; 1950-1951
     14        Se, General

16   1         Sh, General
     2         Shapiro, Ezra 1938-1940; 1946
     3         Shapiro, Leo 1942-1946
     4         Shetzer, Simon 1941-1943, n.d.
     5         Si, General
     6         Silverman, David W. 1950-1952
     7         Silvertrust, Leon 1941-1946
     8         Simon, Ralph 1943-1946; 1950-1952
     9         Sk-Sp, General
     10        Slomvitz, Philip 1941-1943; 1946
     11        South African Zionist-Federation 1939-1940; 1944-1946
     12        Spiro, Saul S. 1939-1946
     13        St-Sz, General
     14        Steinberg, Milton 1941-1945; 1948; 1950
     15        Synagogue Council of America 1943; 1945-1946
     16        Szold, Robert 1938-1939
     17        Szold, Robert 1941-1946

17   1         T, General
     2         U-V, General
     3         United  Jewish  Appeal Mr-Ag 1939
     4         United  Jewish  Appeal S-Dec 1939
     5         United  Jewish  Appeal Ja-Mr 1940
     6         United  Jewish  Appeal Ap-Dec 1940
     7         United  Jewish  Appeal 1941-1942; 1944-1946; 1950

18   1         United  Palestine Appeal 1938-1939
     2         United  Palestine Appeal 1940; 1942; 1944-1945; 1950
     3         United  Palestine Appeal (Reports) 1939
     4         United  Synagogue of America 1940; 1945-1946; 1950-1951
     5         Wa-We,  General
     6         War Finance Committee of Illinois 1942-1944
     7         Waxman, Meyer 1939-1946
     8         Weinstein, Jacob J. 1939; 1941-1943; 1945-1946; 1951
     9         Weisgal, Meyer W. 1941-1945, n.d.
     10        Weizmann, Chaim 1938-1942, n.d.
     11        Wh-Wr, General
     12        Wise, Stephen S. 1923-1927; 1938-1946

19   1         Y, General
     2         Yard, James M. 1941-1943; 1945-1946
     3         Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO) 1941-1943; 1945-1946; 1950
     4         Young Judea 1938-1940; 1943
     5         Z, General
     6         Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) 1937-S 1938
     7         ZOA 0-Dec 1938
     8         ZOA Ja-F 1939
     9         ZOA Mr-My 1939
     10        ZOA Je-S 1939
     11        ZOA O-Dec 1939

20   1         ZOA Ja-My 1940
     2         ZOA Je-Dec 1940
     3         ZOA 1941-1946; 1952
     4         ZOA n.d.
     5         ZOA (Administrative Council) 1938-1940
     6         ZOA (Administrative Council) 1941-1942
     7         ZOA (Administrative Council) 1944-1947, n.d.
     8         ZOA (Committee of Seven) 1938
     9         ZOA (Delegates) 1940
     10        ZOA (Education) 1938-1939

21   1         ZOA (Executive Committee) 1938-1939
     2         ZOA (Executive Committee) 1940-1941
     3         ZOA (Executive Committee) 1944-1946
     4         ZOA (Finance Committee) 1938-1939
     5         ZOA (Finance Committee) 1940
     6         ZOA (Goldman Fund) 1938-1939
     7         ZOA (Inter-Governmental Committee) 1939
     8         ZOA (Membership) 1939-1940; 1946
     9         ZOA (Publicity) 1938
     10        ZOA (Refugees) 1938-1940

22   1         ZOA (White Paper) 1939
     2         ZOA (Youth) 1938-1940
     3         Zionist Organization of Chicago 1930; 1935-1940
     4         Zionist Organization of Chicago 1941-1946
     5         Zionist Organization of St. Louis 1942
     6         Zukerman, William 1950-1953
     7         Unidentified Hebrew correspondence 1941-1952, n.d.

SERIES B. SERMONS AND WRITINGS

     8         A-C
     9         "Ahad Ha-Am"
     10        "Crisis and Decision" (Selected Quotes)
     11        E-K
     12        L-Z

23   1         "A Rabbi Takes Stock"
     2         "A Rabbi Takes Stock"
     3         Untitled Sermons and Writings 1926-1941, n.d.
     4         Untitled Manuscript. n.d.

SERIES C. MISCELLANEOUS

     5         Biographical Data and Tributes
     6         Chicago, Ill. - Congregation Anshe Emet (70th Anniversary) 1943
     7         Letters of Condolence (Written at the time of the death of Solomon Goldman) 1953
     8         Photographs
     9         Thirty-fifth Anniversary in Rabbinate 1952
	 
24	          Audio recordings [wire]	1949-1953

SUBJECT TRACINGS top

Note: The following list of subjects is a selective index to many of the topics and
individuals in the SOLOMON GOLDMAN PAPERS.  It is selective in that it only attempts
to draw attention to significant items in the collection. It does not attempt to list
every subject or individual nor does it try to indicate all places that a listed
subject or individual appears in the collection. When used in conjunction with the Box
and Folder List, the Subject Tracings should help the researcher locate topics. 
References are to boxes and folders: e.g., 2/11 means Box 2, Folder 11.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 12/13

Blumenfield, Samuel M. 3/3
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation 5/4; 10/3; 15/9
Board of Jewish Education 2/9; 7/5
Brandeis, Louis D. 22/8

Hebrew University 2/1

Intercollegiate Menorah Association 7/7

Jewish National Fund of America 4/7; 5/9
Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 3/8; 10/5
Jewish Statistical Bureau 12/9
Jewish Theological Seminary of America 4/4; 5/2
Jewish Welfare Fund 5/7
Jung, Moses 2/4

Kadushin, Max 2/11
Keren Hayesod 12/10

Landau, Jacob 9/2

Palestine Foundation Fund 10/11; 12/10

Rabbinical Assembly of America 5/12; 12/4
Refugees 2/3,4; 3/10; 9/7; 11/16; 17/3; 18/1; 21/10

Sachar, Abram L. 2/10
Society for the Advancement of Judaism 3/8

Union of American Hebrew Congregations 4/11
United Palestine Appeal 11/8; 14/1

Weizmann, Chaim 1/5
Wise, Stephen S. 1/7; 2/3; 20/1

Zionism 1/2; 2/5,6,12,13; 3/12; 5/6; 6/4,15; 7/3,8; 8/2/,7;11/14; 12/11; 13/5; 14/1;
16/11,16; 17/4; 18/2,12; 22/12

Zionist Organization of America 2/13; 3/12; 5/10; 6/7; 7/5; 11/2,18; 12/3; 13/5;
16/12; 22/12

APPENDIX top


Sermons and Writings of Solomon Goldman

A

Advantages and Limitations of Institutionalism n.d.
American-Jewish Scene n.d.
An Appeal to England n.d.
Arab-Jewish Rights to Palestine 20 Nov. 1944
Assimilation Is Self-Hate Dec 1941

B

Balfour Day Address n.d.
The Bewildered Jew 28 F 1936
Beyond the War 20 O 1940
Bialik (Hayyim Nahman) n.d.
B'nai B'rith Convention Address 1941
Brandeis n.d.
Brandeis (Louis Dembitz) N 1941
Brandeis - As American and Jew 8 N 1940
Brandeis - Character and Destiny 17 O 1941
Brandeis - Practical Idealist n.d.

C

Conference of Jews and Christians Address 12 Ja 1938
Council of Conservative Synagogue Convention Address 1945

E

Europeans Curse Columbus n.d.

F

Five Years of American Zionism n.d.
From Warsaw To Vienna 16 D 1938

G

Galut 24 Ap 1938

H

Hadassah Convention Address 22 0 1952
Has Zionism Met the Challenge? n.d.
Have Liberals A Program? n.d.
The Hebrew Bible n.d.

I

If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem n.d.
In My Notes n.d.


Jewish Charities Address n.d.
Jewish Palestine Pavilion Dedication Service Address 28 My 1939
Jewish Welfare Board Address 13 Je 1945
Judaism and the Contemporary Scene n.d.
Judaism Today and Tomorrow n.d.

K

Keren Hayesod Campaign Address n.d.
Kinnur vs. Pizzur 22 My 1936

L

Loshke the Litvak. n.d.

M

Mrs. Gabriel Dunkelman Receives an Aliyah n.d.

P

Palestine and the Near East 8 Je 1932
The Popular Mind 13 N 1936
Present Day Economic Trends and Prospect on Jewish Life in America n.d.
Program or Chaos? 15 Ag 1941

R

Reinhardt, Art and the Jew n.d.
The Romance of a People n.d.
Rosh Hashanah n.d.

S

Schwartz (Joseph) 20 Mr 1936
Sheer Ignorance  n.d.
Szold (Henrietta) - A Challenge and an Inspiration 20 D 1935

T

The Task of Modern Religion n.d.
To What End? 6 Mr 1936
Totalitarianism vs. Diversity In a Democracy n.d.
Toward A Better Understanding 29 D 1935

U

United Jewish Relief Address 20 Ap 1939
United Palestine Appeal Address 7 Ja 1940

V

V-E Day Address n.d.
V-E Day Prayer n.d.

Z

Zionist Organization of America Convention Address 1941, n.d.

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