Isaac Goldberg

Born in Boston in 1887, Isaac Goldberg was an American journalist, author, critic, translator, editor, publisher, and lecturer. He studied at Harvard, earning a BA in 1910, an MA in 1911, and a PhD in 1912, and went on to build a career that moved easily between scholarship and general literary journalism.

Goldberg became known for his energetic writing on modern literature, theater, and music, as well as for biographies and critical studies. Sources available here also describe his work as an important bridge to other traditions, especially through translations of Yiddish writing and his interest in Hispanic and Latin American literature.

He died on July 14, 1938. A suitable verified portrait image was not confirmed from the sources reviewed here, so none is included.