Gerald Goldberg
Gerald Yael Goldberg (born 1912, Cork, Ireland — died 31 December 2003, Cork, Ireland) was a lawyer and politician who in 1977 became the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Cork. Goldberg was the son of Lithuanian Jewish refugee of the village of Akmian (Yiddish) /Akmene (Lithuanian), Kovno (Kaunas) who was put ashore in Cork with other Jews and told that "Cork was the gateway to America."
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“Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest things in the nicest way.”
—Isaac Goldberg (1887–1938)