Joshua L. Goldberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joshua L. Goldberg

United States Navy chaplain

Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1896

Place of Birth: Belarus

Date of Death: 24-Dec-1994

Profession: rabbi, military officer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Joshua Louis Goldberg (January 6, 1896 – December 24, 1994) was a Belarusian-born American rabbi, who was the first rabbi to be commissioned as a U.S.
Navy chaplain in World War II (and only the third to serve in the Navy in its history), the first to reach the rank of Navy Captain (the equivalent of Army Colonel), and the first to retire after a full active-duty career.He had a highly unusual military background for a U.S.
Navy chaplain, having been drafted into the Russian army when he was a teenager, then deserting to make his way to the United States where he enlisted in the U.S.
Army, serving in an infantry unit in Europe during World War I before beginning rabbinical school studies in New York City after the war.