Goodman, Isaac Meyer

1929 Yearbook 

GOODMAN, Isaac Meyer. Born 16th December, 1871, at Liverpool, England. Educated at Liverpool Hebrew Institute. Married in 1892 to Sylvia Zeffertt, of Portsmouth; has one son. Arrived in South Africa 1895. Has filled the following public and communal offices: Town Councillor, Springs, for 13 years; Mayor and Justice of the Peace, Springs (three years) 1913-1914-1915-1916; Past Master, Goldfields Lodge, 2653, E.C.; Government appointed Member, Witwatersrand East School Board, 1907-1915; Government appointed Member, Boksburg Hospital Board; Member Committee, Johannesburg Public Library; Chairman, Transvaal Victuallers' Federation; Founder and President, Springs Hebrew Congregation; Founder and President, Springs Zionist Society; Treasurer, Hebrew High School, Johannesburg; Hon. Secretary and Vice-President, Witwatersrand Old Hebrew Congregation; Hon. Secretary, Jewish Board of Deputies for the Transvaal and Natal; Hon. Treasurer, South African Jewish Board of Deputies; Vice-President, Johannesburg Jewish Guild: Member Executive Council, South African Zionist Federation and United Hebrew Congre-gation; Treasurer, Jewish War Victims' Fund; Originator, Jewish War Memorial Hall and Chairman of Executive of the Building Fund; Hon. Organiser, Cape Jewish War Victims' Fund; Hon. Secretary, Jewish War Memorial Hall Association; Vice-President, South African Jewish Historical Society; Editor and

Compiler, South African Jewish Year Book; Founder and Editor of Magazine "Ivri Onouchi"; Member Executive, Jewish Colonisation Fund; unsuccessfully contested Springs Parliamentary Division 1907 for Transvaal Legislative Assembly; Author of play "Sugarman the Shadchan"; Queen's Medal for Active Service, Boer War. Postal Address: P.O. Box 3009, Cape Town.