Hymen Goldman, a retired Washington businessman and a founder of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington, died here last Saturday of the age of 92.
Born in Russia, Goldman lived in Canada before coming to Washington in 1907. He was a founding partner of the Standard Cigar and Tobacco Company, a local. wholesale tobacco operation, from which he retired in 1970 as chairman of the board. He also was founder and director emeritus of the Mocke Corporation.
A longtime leader of the Washington Jewish community, Goldman was president of the Jewish Community Council in the 1940’s. He was president of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater Washington in the mid-1960’s and was its honorary president at the time of his death. He was vice president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and honorary vice president of the Zionist Organization of America and honorary president of its Louis Brandeis Zionist District here.
Goldman was president of the Hebrew Home for the Aged of Greater Washington in the 1940’s and 1950’s and its honorary president at the time of his death. He was also on honorary board member of both the Jewish Social Service Agency and the Jewish Community Center and a life board member of Ados Israel Congregation.
In 1968, George town University’s the theology department established a lectureship in Jewish studies in honor of Goldman. His autobiography, “I Could Write A Book,” was published in 1974.
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