Born: 1882, Warsaw, Poland.
Died: 1973, Miami, Fl., U.S.A.
Father: Herschel Malinberg
Mother: Brondell Rothenberg
Name change: Minnie Hirsch, c. 1894
Married: Morris Goldstein
Children:
Saul, b. 1905. A lawyer. m. Lillian Marie French, 1925.
Sidney, b. 1909, d. 7 December 2001. A chemist who created Lynn Plastics in
Lynn, Mass. An avid skier and world traveler. m. Joanne Katsapetses.
Herman, b. 1917. A chemist.
Education:
Did not receive a formal education, but learned Yiddish and English when an adult.
Career:
Worked in her father's shoe store in New York. After her marriage briefly owned a candy store, also in New York.
Other information:
Emigrated with her mother to New York in 1894.
In 1942, Max Weinreich, director of research of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, and its guiding intellectual light, sponsored a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme, "Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America." There were about 200 entries. Twenty-five contestants won prizes based on their precision, clarity, and attention to detail, one of whom was Minnie. Her entry, translated from the original Yiddish, appears as the first article in the book My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants, by Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ISBN 0814740197.