Goldsmith was born in
Jonava,
Lithuania on April 18, 1910 He graduated from the Hebrew high school ('Schwabes') in
Kaunas and from the
Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. His early career was in the Jewish press of Eastern Europe, writing for the daily
Yiddishe Shtimme (
The Jewish Voice). From 1934 to 1939 he wrote for
Hayntike Nayes (''Today's News''), the paper's evening edition, becoming its editor in 1933. He relocated to London in 1939. ==In England==