Hirsch Bernstein

Template:Short description Template:Template other 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.Template:R

That same year, he launched Di Post, the first Yiddish-language periodical in the United States,Template:R using Yiddish type imported from Vilna and Vienna.Template:R The publication lasted only six months.Template:R 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.Template:RTemplate:R

Bernstein later became a successful businessman in New York and a patron of the Yiddish theatre.Template:R He died in 1907 at the Fairmount Hotel in Tannersville, New York, in the Catskill Mountains.Template:R

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