Hirsch Bernstein
Hirsch Bernstein | |
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| Born | Zvi Hirsch Bernstein March 25, 1846 Vladislavov, Augustów Governorate, Congress Poland |
| Died | August 6, 1907 (aged 61)[1] Tannersville, New York |
| Language | Hebrew, Yiddish |
| Relatives | Herman Bernstein (nephew)[1] |
Zvi Hirsch Bernstein (Yiddish: צבי הירש בערענשטין; March 25, 1846 – August 6, 1907) was a Russian-American editor and publisher. He was the founder of the first Yiddish and the first Hebrew periodicals in the United States.
Biography
[edit]Hirsch Bernstein was born in Vladislavov (Neustadt-Schirwindt), then part of the Russian Empire. He received a traditional Jewish education and became fluent in written Hebrew. He emigrated to the United States in 1870, settling in New York City.[2]
That same year, he launched Di Post, the first Yiddish-language periodical in the United States,[3] using Yiddish type imported from Vilna and Vienna.[4] The publication lasted only six months.[4] Also in 1870, Bernstein founded Ha-Tzofeh be-Eretz ha-Ḥadashah ('The Observer in the New Land'), the first Hebrew-language publication in the United States, which was published weekly for five years.
Bernstein was a frequent contributor to prominent European Hebrew periodicals such as Ha-Maggid, Ha-Lebanon, and Ha-Karmel. Alongside Ch. G. Vidaver, he was among the earliest regular American correspondents to these publications.[5][2]
Bernstein later became a successful businessman in New York and a patron of the Yiddish theatre.[3] He died in 1907 at the Fairmount Hotel in Tannersville, New York, in the Catskill Mountains.[6]
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Wiernik, Peter (1902). "Bernstein, Hirsch". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 99.
- ^ a b "Hirsch Bernstein". The New York Times. August 2, 1907. p. 7.
- ^ a b Rosenthal, Herman; Wiernik, Peter (1902). "Bernstein, Hirsch". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 99.
- ^ a b Silberschlag, Eisig (2007). "Bernstein, Zvi Hirsch". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- ^ a b Frank, Murray (1946). "Notes on the Yiddish Press". The Chicago Jewish Forum. 4 (4). Chicago: 256.
- ^ Kabakoff, Jacob (1980). "The American Hameassef". The Jewish Book Annual. 38. Jewish Book Council: 42.
- ^ "Tannersville". The Jewish Outlook. Denver, Colorado. August 16, 1907. p. 5.
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