Isaac Leib Goldberg
{{Short description|Jewish philanthropist (1860–1935)}}
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| death_place = Switzerland
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| movement = Zionism
| parents = Alexander Sander HaLevi Goldberg & Liba Segal
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Isaac Leib Goldberg ({{langx|he|יצחק לייב גולדברג}}, 7 February 1860 – 14 September 1935){{cite web |url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_17311.html |title=Sakiai |last1=Slutsky |first1=Yehuda |date= |website=Jewish Virtual Library |publisher=American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise |access-date=2015-01-12}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.geni.com/people/Yitzchak-Leib-Goldberg/6000000013345239422 |title=Yitzchak Leib Goldberg |last1=Anne Blejer |first1=Hatte |date=2013-03-04 |website=Geni |publisher=MyHeritage |access-date=2015-01-10}} was a Zionist leader and philanthropist in both Ottoman Palestine and the Russian Empire, and one of the principal founders of Rishon LeZion, the first Zionist settlement founded in the Land of Israel by the New Yishuv. An early member of the Hovevei Zion movement (1882), he also founded the Ohavei Zion society.{{cite web |url= http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-2587507491/goldberg-isaac-leib.html |title= Goldberg, Isaac Leib |last= Yehuda |first= Slutsky |date=2007 |website=Encyclopaedia Judaica |publisher= Encyclopedia.com |access-date=2015-01-10}} Goldberg was a delegate to the First Zionist Congress and the founder of two Hebrew newspapers, Ha'aretz (today Israel's oldest daily newspaper) and Ha'am.{{cite web |url= http://polishjews.yivoarchives.org/archive/?p=collections/controlcard&id=17441 |title= Goldberg, Isaac Leib (1860-1935) Papers |website= Yivo Institute for Jewish Research |publisher= |access-date=2015-01-10}}
Biography
Isaac (Yitzchak) Leib Goldberg was born on 7 February 1860 in Szaki, Congress Poland (present-day Šakiai, Lithuania) to Alexander Sander HaLevi Goldberg and Liba Segal. His brother was Boris Goldberg. In his early years, Goldberg studied at Kovno Yeshiva and settled in Vilnius, Lithuania.{{cite book |url=http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631187288_chunk_g978063118728812_ss1-170 |title=Goldberg, Isaac Leib (1860–1935) |last1=Cohn-Sherbok |first1=Dan |editor1-first=Dan |editor1-last=Cohn-Sherbok |date=1992 |isbn=9780631187288 |doi=10.1111/b.9780631187288.1992.x |website=Wiley-Blackwell |publisher=The Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica |access-date=2015-01-10}} His wife was Rachel Pinnes and they had five children, Hannah Tolkowsky (wife of Shmuel Tolkowsky), Shulamit Hochfeld, Samuel Goldberg, Yehudit Klibanov, and Binyamin Zeev Goldberg.{{cite book |last=Patai |first=Raphael |date=1992 |title=Journeyman in Jerusalem: Memories and Letters, 1933-1947 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IrF7ZYWMO8MC&pg=PA355 |location=Oxford, England |publisher=University of Utah Press |page=355 |isbn=0739102095 |access-date=2015-01-10 }}
In 1903 the first plot of land for the Jewish National Fund was given as a gift by Goldberg for growing olives in Israel.{{cite web |url=http://www.jnf.org/about-jnf/history |title=Our History |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |website=Jewish National Fund |publisher= |access-date=2015-01-10}}
Zvi Shilony, Ideology and Settlement; The Jewish National Fund, 1897-1914, Magnes Press (1998), 119-121. In 1908 he purchased the first plot of land on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem for the future Hebrew University. Isaac Leib Goldberg also helped create the Geulah Company for private land acquisition and sale in Israel, and the Carmel Company for sale of kosher wine.{{cite web |url=
http://ded213eams.maximumasp.com/Item/23426/Zionism_%96_Appeal_for_Assistance|title=Zionism – Appeal for Assistance |last1=Goldberg |first1=Isaac L. |type=auction listing|date=1904 |website=Virtual Judaica |publisher= |access-date=2015-01-10}}
In 1919 he co-founded the newspaper Haaretz in Jerusalem. His son Binyamin Zeev was killed in Tel Aviv in the 1929 Palestine riots. Ramat Gan's Tel Binyamin neighborhood was named in his honor.
Upon his death, in Switzerland on 14 September 1935, Goldberg bequeathed one half of his estate to the Jewish National Fund for the promotion of Hebrew language and culture. This donation, known as the Isaac Leib and Rachel Goldberg Fund, amounted to roughly $30 million by today's standards. Goldberg was buried in Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv, Israel.
See also
- Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896), German Jewish financier and philanthropist, founder of the Jewish Colonization Association
- Edmond James de Rothschild (1845–1934), French Jewish banker and major donor of the Zionist project
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