Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Goldman (1905/1907 – July 6, 1980) was a renowned

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, '' dayan'', and publisher in

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and the United States. Goldman was born in Neupest (), a suburb of

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, Hungary. His father, Rabbi Yosef Goldman, was the chief rabbi and ''

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'' of the Orthodox Jewish community. In 1926, he became a rabbi in

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, and in 1934 in

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(then part of Romania). In 1938, after his father died, he was given his father's position as chief rabbi and ''

'' of the Orthodox Jewish community in Neupest. To save his family from the 1944 Nazi invasion of Hungary, he obtained false papers that certified them as non-Jews, a ruse that enabled them to live on a farm disguised as gentiles and thereby escape deportation to concentration or death camps by the Nazis. After the war, Goldman's family lived in

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, for a period of time. In 1950, Goldman, his wife, and their eight children arrived in America aboard the ''Marine Shark''. In the United States, Goldman was a '' dayan'' and

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of ''

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''. He published a ''

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'' and various other ''seforim''. His Shas was one of the most popular editions available at the time. Initially, he lived on the

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, then in

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, and finally in

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, where he served as rabbi of a synagogue known as "Naipest" (namesake of his previous rabbinate, in Hungary). He died in Boro Park on July 6, 1980.

References

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