Hirsch Bernstein
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.[1]Template:R/superscript
That same year, he launched Di Post, the first Yiddish-language periodical in the United States,[2]Template:R/superscript using Yiddish type imported from Vilna and Vienna.[3]Template:R/superscript The publication lasted only six months.[3]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.[4]Template:R/superscript[1]Template:R/superscript
Bernstein later became a successful businessman in New York and a patron of the Yiddish theatre.[2]Template:R/superscript He died in 1907 at the Fairmount Hotel in Tannersville, New York, in the Catskill Mountains.[5]Template:R/superscript
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- 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people)
- American newspaper editors
- American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
- Hebrew-language writers
- Lithuanian Jews
- People from Augustów Governorate
- People from Kudirkos Naumiestis
- Businesspeople from New York City
- People from Suwałki Governorate
- People of the Haskalah
- Yiddish-language journalists