Vida Goldgar

(1930 - 2004)

Vida Daab Goldgar was born in Columbia, Illinois, in 1930. Her father, John Daab, was a pharmacist, and her mother, Adele Schein, died when she was seven years old. She married Michael Goldgar at age 21 and had four children: David, Dirk, Dean, and Deborah.

Goldgar's family moved to Atlanta from New York in 1959. She worked for the Southern Israelite part time while raising her family. She divorced in 1973 and began working full time at the Southern Israelite under the leadership of Adolph Rosenberg.  In 1979, she purchased the paper and became editor and publisher. She owned the Southern Israelite until August 1986, when she sold it to Stan and Shirley Rose of the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle. The Roses renamed the newspaper Atlanta Jewish Times and she continued to serve as a senior editor and columnist for the paper until her retirement in 1994.