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December 21, 1956
The Southern Jewish Weekly
Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida
What is this article about?
Obituary-like reflection on Dr. Goldman's death, emphasizing his long association with Zionism as president of the Zionist Organization of America and his profound contributions to Biblical scholarship through works like 'The Ten Commandments', praised for erudition and spiritual sensitivity.
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The Ten Commandments
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Goldman was a blow to the Zionist cause with which he was associated for so many years, as president of the Zionist Organization of America and as leading Jewish communal figure, but it was a severer blow to the cause of Biblical scholarship and fine writing. For anyone who has read his introduction to his "The Book of Books" could not have failed to detect a fine artistic hand and a remarkable tenderness in thinking.
The University of Chicago Press was not guilty of exaggeration when, in publishing the book, it called "The Ten Commandments" a monument of creative scholarship and a happy commingling of erudition, spiritual sensitivity and altruistic considerations.
Dr. Goldman was a sincere man and a sincere scholar, and though steeped in Biblical scholarship, "the moving quality of his utterances on the Ten Commandments can be better appreciated when one understands that he was concerned not only with documents but with living forces and with human passions which are part of them," as Maurice Samuel says in the concluding paragraph of his brilliant foreword.
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Goldman was a blow to the Zionist cause with which he was associated for so many years, as president of the Zionist Organization of America and as leading Jewish communal figure, but it was a severer blow to the cause of Biblical scholarship and fine writing. For anyone who has read his introduction to his "The Book of Books" could not have failed to detect a fine artistic hand and a remarkable tenderness in thinking.
The University of Chicago Press was not guilty of exaggeration when, in publishing the book, it called "The Ten Commandments" a monument of creative scholarship and a happy commingling of erudition, spiritual sensitivity and altruistic considerations.
Dr. Goldman was a sincere man and a sincere scholar, and though steeped in Biblical scholarship, "the moving quality of his utterances on the Ten Commandments can be better appreciated when one understands that he was concerned not only with documents but with living forces and with human passions which are part of them," as Maurice Samuel says in the concluding paragraph of his brilliant foreword.
What sub-type of article is it?
Biography
What themes does it cover?
Misfortune
Moral Virtue
Tragedy
What keywords are associated?
Zionism
Biblical Scholarship
Ten Commandments
Goldman
Maurice Samuel
Sincere Scholar
What entities or persons were involved?
Goldman
Maurice Samuel
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Goldman
Maurice Samuel
Story Details
Tribute to Dr. Goldman, noting his death as a blow to Zionism and Biblical scholarship, praising his sincere scholarship and works like 'The Book of Books' and 'The Ten Commandments', with commendation from the University of Chicago Press and Maurice Samuel's foreword.