ZEEV (WOLF) GOLD (February 5, 1889-April 8, 1956)
He was born in Shtutshin
(Belorussian, Shchuchyn; Lithuanian, Ščiutinas), into a
family of rabbis. He studied with his
father who was rabbi of Mariampol, later at the Mirer Yeshiva, and at age
seventeen he received rabbinic ordination.
From 1907 to 1924 he was living in the United States. He was a rabbi in Chicago, San Francisco, and
New York. He founded the Yeshiva Torah V’daat
and served as president of Mizrachi in the United States and Canada. He was a member of the Jewish Agency and, on
its behalf, he traveled to Europe and Africa.
From 1947 he was a member of the executive of the Agency, with
responsibility for Torah, education, and culture. From 1924 he was living in Israel. He was a member of the council of the provisional
government when the state first arose.
He published articles on Jewish religious and general Zionist questions
in various Yiddish-language newspapers—primarily, though, in publications of
Mizrachi in Yiddish and Hebrew. He was
the author of works on religious Zionism, such as: Shuve yisroel (Tranquility
in Israel) (Jerusalem, 1935), 15 pp.; Nive zahav (Words of gold)
(Jerusalem, 1949), 604 pp. He also
published memoirs on the Mizrachi movement in 25 yor “mizrakhi” in amerike
(Twenty-five years of Mizrachi in America) (New York, 1936). He died in Jerusalem.
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