Boris Dov Goldberg

Born in Shaki (Sakiai), Lithuania. Moved to Vilna. Lived in England during WW I. Came to Israel in 1919. Was wounded in fighting with the Arabs in 1921 and died soon after.

Son: Eliahu Goldberg who studied Chemistry at Cornell University in Ithaca and came to Israel at age 20 and married Yardena (Jordena) Margolis-Kalvariski.

"Boris Goldberg (1866-1921), one of the leaders of the Zionists in Russia, journalist and member of many editorial boards of newspapers in Russia and London, from 1920 in Eretz Yisrael."

SOURCE: http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/shaki/shaki2.html "A Partial List of Personalities born in Shaki

"GOLDBERG, BORIS (1865–1922), economist and Zionist. Born in Shaki (Sakiai), Lithuania, Goldberg studied at Hanover, where he graduated in 1891 as a chemical engineer. In 1898 he moved to Vilna. He joined the Ḥibbat Zion movement at an early age, and when the Zionist Organization was founded, joined it at once. Goldberg was an ardent supporter of practical settlement work in Ereẓ Israel. He contributed articles to all existing Jewish periodicals in Russia, was a member of the editorial board of Razsvet and Ha-Olam, and published studies on the demographic and social composition of Russian Jewry..."

SOURCE: http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-2587507487/goldberg-boris.html