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Goldin studied at the Yeshiva of Vilna, where he was ordained a rabbi.
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Hyman Goldin
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A prolific author of English Jewish literature, he wrote over fifty works. According to a possibly-apocryphal story, Goldin was dismissed from the Yeshiva for studying the writings of Charles Darwin at a time when Orthodox Jews considered evolution a to be heresy. He emigrated from the Eishyshok shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1900, and settled in Brooklyn.
Jewish chaplain to Comstock Prison from 1932 to 1947, Goldin collaborated with two prisoners to write a Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo (1950).
Goldin translated the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, an abridged version of the Shulchan Aruch (The standard code of Jewish law), publishing his translation in 1961. He also translated several works of the Mishnah.
