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December 3, 2025

The Jewish New York Postmaster Who Raised Vast Sums for Charity and Initiated “Operation Santa”

Albert Goldman’s American religion.

During his tenure as New York’s postmaster from the early 1930s until 1952, Albert Goldman had the difficult task of managing the city’s wartime mail, which included a mass of correspondence with troops fighting in Europe—service for which he earned a medal. Eager for publicity, he often turned up in newspaper articles, even as he kept his private life very private. Menachem Wecker notes what the New York Times obituary for Goldman glossed over: 

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