GOODMAN, PAUL

GOODMAN, PAUL (1875–1949), British Zionist and public figure. Born in Dorpat, Estonia, Goodman went to England in 1891. He was for many years secretary of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation. Goodman became an active Zionist after hearing Theodor herzl address his first meeting in London (1896), and from that time until his death he served the Zionist Organization. He occupied various important positions in the Zionist Movement of London and was honorary secretary of the Political Committee, appointed by Chaim   weizmann and nahum sokolow , before the balfour Declaration was issued. Together with Arthur D. Lewis he edited the volume Zionism: Problems and Views (1916), was editor of the Zionist Review (1920–26 and 1934–38), and was a contributor to various Jewish encyclopedias and Zionist periodicals. Among his works are The Synagogue and the Church (1908), History of the Jews (1911), Moses Montefiore (1925), Zionism in England (1930), and The Jewish National Home (1943). He also edited Chaim Weizmann: A Tribute on His Seventieth Birthday (1945). A memorial tribute to him, entitled The Rebirth of Israel (1952), was published by the Zionist Federation of Great Britain. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Paul Goodman on his Seventieth Birthday (1945); Current Biography Yearbook 1968 (1969), 153–7. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: S.A. Cohen, English Zionists and British Jews: The Communal Politics of Anglo-Jewry, 1895–1920 (1982), index. (Josef Fraenkel)