GOLDSMITH, SAMUEL ABRAHAM
- GOLDSMITH, SAMUEL ABRAHAM
- GOLDSMITH, SAMUEL ABRAHAM (1893–1987), U.S. social worker.
Goldsmith was born in New York. Following service as a field worker for
the YMHA and the Jewish Welfare Board in New York City,
Goldsmith served for ten years as executive director of the Bureau of
Jewish Social Research. In this capacity he conducted detailed surveys
of Jewish social services in many American cities. Their findings and
recommendations profoundly affected the direction of American Jewish
social and communal work. In 1930 Goldsmith was appointed executive
director of the Jewish Federation and Jewish Welfare Fund of Chicago, a
position he held until his retirement. Shortly after accepting that
position, he helped organize the Community Fund of Chicago, a forerunner
of the United Way. He served as president of the National Conference on
Jewish Social Welfare (1928–29). During the 1930s he was a charter
member of the Joint Emergency Relief Fund and chairman of the Health
Division of the Council of Social Agencies. In 1936 he helped establish
and served as executive director of the Jewish Welfare Fund of Chicago,
which raised funds for European Jews during the Holocaust. The
JWF merged with other organizations, becoming in 1950 the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. Goldsmith served as its
executive vice president. An active leader and speaker within the
American Jewish community, Goldsmith encouraged American Jewry to
support the needs of Jews abroad and the development of a modern State
of Israel.
(Kenneth D. Roseman /
Ruth Beloff (2nd ed.)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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