One of a number of rabbis and learned men who became believers in Jerusalem in the first half of the 19th century. He was baptized in Christ Church, Jerusalem, by Nicolayson, in 1843. He had consequently to undergo much persecution and loss of property. In 1847 we find him as a preacher of the Gospel to his brethren in Cairo, and then, on account of illness, he was transferred to Salonica.
In 1851 he was appointed as missionary at Constantinople, and from there he went, in 1860, to Smyrna. Goldberg was a most spiritually-minded and lovable man. His latter years he spent in England, and contributed to the “Hebrew Christian Witness” in 1874, two learned and very valuable and extensive articles on “The Language of Christ” and on “The Future Division of the Land of Israel.”
Sources:
A. Bernstein, Jewish Witnesses for Christ
Ewald, Memoirs
