Hirsch Bernstein
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| Born | Zvi Hirsch Bernstein Script error: No such module "person date". |
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| Language | Hebrew, Yiddish |
| Relatives | Herman Bernstein (nephew)[1]Template:R/superscript |
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Zvi Hirsch Bernstein (Template:Langx; 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
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]Template:R/superscript
That same year, he launched Di Post, the first Yiddish-language periodical in the United States,[3]Template:R/superscript using Yiddish type imported from Vilna and Vienna.[4]Template:R/superscript The publication lasted only six months.[4]Template:R/superscript 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]Template:R/superscript[2]Template:R/superscript
Bernstein later became a successful businessman in New York and a patron of the Yiddish theatre.[3]Template:R/superscript He died in 1907 at the Fairmount Hotel in Tannersville, New York, in the Catskill Mountains.[6]Template:R/superscript
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hirsch Bernstein". The New York Times. August 2, 1907. p. 7.
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Frank, Murray (1946). "Notes on the Yiddish Press". The Chicago Jewish Forum. 4 (4). Chicago: 256.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kabakoff, Jacob (1980). "The American Hameassef". The Jewish Book Annual. 38. Jewish Book Council: 42.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tannersville". The Jewish Outlook. Denver, Colorado. August 16, 1907. p. 5.
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