 He studied at Paris, France's École des Beaux-Arts (1906–10) and Académie Julian under Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Paul Laurens, and taught at the Prussian Academy of Arts and, later, the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem (1911–1915, returning to teach again in then British Mandate of Palestine from 1924–1926).He began working in Montreal in 1928, and soon after began favouring the landscapes of Quebec's Gaspésie region as subjects.In 1939, Goldberg became a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society (in French, "Société d'art contemporain"), a group of Canadian artists intent on sensitizing the public to modern art.