Introduction
DR. LEOPOLD Z. GOLDSTEIN was born in Camden NJ around 1899, one of four children of Solomon Joseph and Rose Zuckerman Goldstein, who lived on Broadway near Kaighn Avenue. The Goldsteins had lived in Baltimore, and had come to Camden from Pennsylvania by 1898. Of the other Goldstein children, both Hyman Goldstein and Henry Goldstein would also become doctors. Daughter Sadie would marry Dr. David Cooper, who practiced dentistry in Camden and South Jersey for many years.
Leopold Goldstein attended the Fetters School at 1020 S. 3rd Street, and was a 1917 graduate of Camden High School, where he took the academic course. His was the last class to graduate from the old Camden High School at Haddon and Newton Avenue, which became Clara Burrough Junior High School in 1918. At the time of the 1920 census, the Goldstein family was living at 1425 Broadway in Camden.
After graduation, Dr. Goldstein specialized in endocrinology. He co-authored, “Clinical Endocrinology of the Female,” with Dr. Charles Mazer, published in Philadelphia and London by the W. B. Saunders Company in 1932.
Dr. Leopold Z. Goldstein passed away in 1963.
Dr. Leopold Z. Goldstein
Dr. Leopold Z. Goldstein
Standing on Atlantic Avenue
Circa 1920
Dr. Leopold Goldstein, standing on Atlantic Avenue, just west of Broadway. Photo taken from alongside of 1425 Broadway, circa 1920. Church in background is still standing.
The Goldstein Family
1927
Left to Right: Dr. Leopold Goldstein, Rose Goldstein, Dr. Henry Z. Goldstein (in hat), Dr. Hyman I. Goldstein, unknown man, Dr. David Cooper — 1927 — The family seeing Dr. Henry Goldstein off for graduate medical study in France and Vienna.
Hotel Walt Whitman
Camden Courier-Post —
Meyer L. Sakin will be installed president for 1928 of Camden Lodge, No. 915, Independent Order B’nai B’rith, at a meeting to be held Sunday evening, January 8 at 7 o’clock at the Hotel Walt Whitman.
The lodge will be addressed by Rabbi William H. Fineshriber, of Keneseth Israel Temple, who will talk on “Jewish Youth” and by Rabbi Nachman S. Arnoff, of Beth-el Synagogue.
Judge Joseph Siegler, of Newark, and Max Drob, of B’nai Jeshurun Congregation, Philadelphia, have been invited to attend.
The past president’s certificate will be presented to Lewis Liberman, by Joseph Varbalow, assistant prosecuter [sic] of Camden county. Sakin will be installed by Herman Moskowitz, of Philadelphia.
Plans are being made by Camden Lodge for the annual banquet and dance which will be held March 25. Addresses will be delivered by the noted lawyer, Aaron Sapiro, of Chicago and New York; Judge John A. Matthews, of Newark; Rabbi Louis Wolsey, of Rodeph Sholom Temple, Philadelphia, and Judge Joseph L. Kun, of Common Pleas Court No. 1, Philadelphia.
Dr. Leopold Goldstein, state deputy of New Jersey I. O. B. B., will serve as toastmaster. The committee consists of Meyer L. Sakin, Fred Siris, J. E. Brown, H. James, A. E. Friedberg, Dr. D. E. Cooper, H. Odlen and Dr. Hyman I. Goldstein. The last named is chairman.
New members recently admitted to Camden Lodge are Maurice B. Wessel, Samuel Varbalow, Ellis Goodman and Benjamin Shindler, all of Camden.
B’nai B’rith Will Hear Rabbi Fineshriber
Camden Courier-Post —
Rabbi William H. Fineshriber, of Philadelphia, will be the principal speaker at the banquet and installation of officers of Camden Lodge No. 915, Independent Order B’nai B’rith, tomorrow night beginning at 6.30 o’clock in the Hotel Walt Whitman.
Rabbi Fineshriber, who advocated “companionate marriage” in a recent sermon, will speak on “Jewish Youth.” Other speakers will be Rabbi Nachman S. Arnoff, of the Congregation Beth-El, and Rabbi Archie L. Davidson, of the Congregation Ahev Zedek.
Lewis Liberman, past president of the lodge, will be toastmaster. Officers to be installed are: Meyer L. Sakin, president; David E. Cooper, vice president; Harry W. Markowich, secretary; Leopold Goldstein, assistant Secretary; Herman Odlen, treasurer; Fred Siris, financial secretary; Lewis Lieberman, monitor; Hyman James, assistant monitor, and Nathan Friedenberg, warden.
Phila. Rabbi Urges Freedom for Youth
Camden Courier-Post —
B’nai B’rith Told Secrecy is Only Result of Prohibitions
Freedom for youth brings its own antidote and makes for better citizenship than repression, Rabbi William H. Fineshriber, of Keneseth Israel Synagogue, Philadelphia, last night told members of Camden Lodge, No. 915, Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.
Rabbi Fineshriber addressed members, wives and friends at the formal installation of officers of the lodge in Hotel Walt Whitman.
Meyer L. Sakin, youthful attorney, was sworn in as president, succeeding Lewis Liberman, likewise an attorney.
The boy of yesterday was forbidden to do many things, Rabbi Fineshriber declared, but the prohibitions had no other effect than to drive him to secrecy. Modern child education teaches parents to permit the boy or girl greater latitude in movement and habits.
He pointed out that the freedom on the part of youth teaches him to eschew bad habits in time and to continue the good habits. Good citizenship requires self-repression rather than forced prohibition.
Rabbi Archie Davidson, local rabbi, mildly disagreed with his Philadelphia colleague. Davidson warmly welcomed Rabbi Nachman Arnoff, newly-elected rabbi of Beth-El Synagogue, to the city and bestowed his best wishes upon the new officers of the B’nai B’rith lodge.
Harry Moskowitz, Philadelphia, represented the Grand Lodge and installed the new officers. Besides Sakin they are Dr. David S. Cooper, vice president; Harry W. Markowich, secretary; Dr. Leopold Goldstein, assistant secretary; Herman Odlen, treasurer; Fred Siris, financial secretary; Max Liberman, monitor; Hyman James, assistant monitor; Nathan Friedenberg, warden; A. Edward Friedberg, guardian; Louis Cades, Abraham Fuhrman and Louis Tarter, trustees.
The new board of governors consists of Bernard Blank, Dr. Samuel Blank, Jacob E. Brown, Dr. Reuben L. Cutler, Israel Eisenberg, Dr. Alexander Ellis, Dr. S. Goldman, Dr. Hyman I. Goldstein, Israel Heine, Emmanuel Kun, Dr. William Laub, Jack Naden, Max Peck, Dr. D. N. Rappaport, Sig. Schoenagle, Samuel Shane, Dr. Isadore S. Siris, Dr. Samuel S. Tomkins, Joseph Varbalow, Benjamin Weinberg, Meyer Wessel, Maurice B. Wessel and Ellis Goodman.
Liberman presided as toastmaster. Dr. Hyman I. Goldstein, New Jersey State Deputy; Assistant Prosecutor Varbalow and Sakin addressed the members and guests.
Remembered
Dr. Leopold Goldstein is remembered by his nephew, Joseph Cooper.