Writers, Artists, and Scientists from 1943 to 1945. Three days after Yiddish humorist Sholem Aleichem came to America, Goldberg went to his hotel and invited him to lecture to Yiddish-speaking students at Columbia University. Sholem Aleichem asked him to instead find an apartment for him with his daughter. Goldberg found an apartment and later married the daughter, Marie Waife. Their children were Dr. Sholom O. Waife of Indianapolis, Indiana and Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged executive director Mitchell M. Waife of New York. In 1964, he helped found Beit Sholom Aleichem in Israel, which by 1972 housed over 300 manuscripts and memorabilia from Sholem Aleichem. Goldberg died from a heart attack in a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, where he was visiting to write a series of articles and engage in research, on December 29, 1972. He was buried in the writers' section of Kiryat Shaul Cemetery. Histadrut General-Secretary Yitzhak Ben-Aharon spoke at the funeral parlor, and the cortege stopped at Beth Sholom-Aleichem, where its director Avraham Liss spoke about Goldberg. At the graveside, Histadrut treasurer Yehoshua Levi and Al HaMishmar editor Yaakov Amit also delivered eulogies. References 1895 births 1972 deaths American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent 19th-century Jews from the Russian Empire Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Columbia University alumni 20th-century American Jews Jewish American journalists American male journalists 20th-century American newspaper editors Journalists from New York City Editors of New York City newspapers Yiddish-language journalists Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery