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Think and Thank, Bevis Mark in history,
Chaim Weismarz, etc..

Com emoção recordamos os trabalhos
de Goodman durante vinte anos na obra
do Resgate dos maranos portugueses, a
sua viagem a Trás-os-Montes, a sua acti-
vidade para obter ajudas para a construção
desta Sinagoga.

Quando fez os seus 70 anos a Federa-
ção Sionista da Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda ins-
tituiu uma publicação na Universidade He-
braica de Jerusalém intitulada "Paul and
Romana Goodman Publicationv sobre a vida
comunal e religiosa dos Maranos em Por-
tugal durante os séculos XVI e XVII.

Seu filho mais novo Cyril foi o inteli-
gence Officer da Brigada Judaica nesta
segunda Grande Guerra.

O Porto israelita está de luto e de luto
está Israel.

A pequena comunidade portuense perdeu
um dos seus membros beneméritos, a grande
congregação de israel perdeu um dos seus
valiosos pilares.

Não houve actividade israelita constru-
tiva em prol do Bem, da Verdade, da justiça
e do amor da Humanidade a quem Ele não
desse um pouco do seu grande esforço.

Judeus Maranos de Portugal encomendai
nas vossas orações a alma piedosa daquele
que no mundo se chamou Paul Goodman,
elevando o vosso coração em homenagem
à Santíssima Unidade, que nos enviou tão
belo guia, ao qual Ele depois de ter desem-
penhado a sua nobre missão, acaba de o
chamar à sua divina presença para o galar-
dão bem merecido e para o repouso eterno
no reino de Deus.

Do Times-Londres, segunda-feira 15 de Agosto
de 1949.

         ZIONISM IN ENGLAND

Mr. Paul Goodman, for many years a
notable figure in the Zionist movement in
England, died on Saturday in hospital in
London at the age of 74.

He was borne at Dorpat, Lithuania, on
April 10, 1875, and for some time after his
arrival in this country in 1891 he lived in
Glasgow. In 1895 he was appointed assistant
secretary of the Spanish and Portuguese
Congregation (the Sephardi community) in
London, the original community of Jewish
settlers in this country, succeeding to the



secretaryship on the death of Samuel Cohen,
who, like him, was born not into the Sephardi
but into the Ashkenazi or North European
community of Jews. He retired in 1946.
As a young man he took an interest in
Zionism and in 19'0 was appointed secre-
tary of the English Zionist Federation. This
interest continued to develop until he became,
many years before his death, one of the
acknowledged Zionist leaders in Anglo-
-Jewry. He was in succession honorary
secretary, honorary treasurer, and chairman
of the political committee of the English
Zionist Federation and of the Zionist Fede-
ration of Great Britain and Ireland: to which
it later changed its name, and he was a
vice-president of the federation for eight
years. His other Zionist activities included
membership of the council of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, the acting chairmanship
of the English central committee of the Pa-
lestine Foundation Fund in 1926, and he
was honorary treasurer of the International
Confederation of General Zionists and chair-
man of the Sir Moses Montefiore Comme-
moration Commitee for the establishment
of a chair in English at the Hebrew Uni-
versity of Jerusalem.

Another interest of Goodman's was in
the Marranos or secret Jews of northern
Portugal, descendants of forced converts to
Christianity of the early sixteenth century.
He made several visits to these Marranos in
Portugal, and was honorary secretary of the
International Portuguese Marrano Commit-
tee, formed in 1926 for their recovery for
Judaism. For his services in this connexion
he was made an honorary vice-president of
the Jewish community of Oporto. Goodman
was one of the earliest members in England
of the Order B'nai B'rith, originally a
German-Jewish friendly organization which
developed into an international organization
for the succour of Jews in need in Europe
and Asia, with headquarters in the United
States. At one time or another he held
practically every honorary office in England.

Goodman's first book, published in 1908,
was "The Synagogue and the Church", a
polemical work that attracted some attention
both in England and America. His small
"History of the Jews" appeared as a Temple
primer in 1911 and subsequently passed into
seven editions, having in its time probably
the largest sale of any Jewish book published