Samuel A. Goldsmith, for many years associated with social service work in New York City, tomorrow officially assumes his duties as executive director of the Jewish Charities of Chicago to succeed A. J. Cahn, resigned, Alfred K. Foreman, president of the charities, announced today.
Mr. Goldsmith was born in New York City, where he attended the public schools and New York University. He also attended Harvard and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. For seven years he was field secretary and general secretary of the council of Young Men’s Hebrew and Kindred Association and for 14 years executive director of the Bureau of Jewish Social Research. Just before the entrance of the United States into the World War, he organized the Board of Jewish Welfare Work in the United States Army and Navy, which later became the Jewish Welfare Board.
Harry Lurie, director of the Jewish Social Service Bureau here, resigned shortly after Mr. Goldsmith’s appointment, to succeed Mr. Goldsmith in New York.
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