- Isaac Goldberg
Isaac Goldberg (
1887 -July 14 ,1938 ) was an American journalist, author, critic, translator, editor, publisher, and lecturer. Born in Boston he studied atHarvard University and received a BA degree in 1910, a MA degree in 1911 and a PhD in 1912. While he actively covered European culture for theBoston Evening Transcript duringWorld War I , Goldberg never actually traveled abroad. In fact, he turned down a 1932Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to Goldberg for travel to South America.He wrote biographies of
H. L. Mencken ,Havelock Ellis ,W. S. Gilbert ,Arthur Sullivan , andGeorge Gershwin , books on theatrical and musical appreciation, and contributed articles for many magazines. He also founded, published, and edited a monthly news magazine called Panorama.He was fluent in Yiddish, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese and translated a variety of literary works into English. He received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation in 1932 to write a history of Spanish and Portuguese literature in America. He was also a lecturer on
Hispanic literature atHarvard University from 1931 to 1932.External links
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