Herman Bernstein - Biography

Herman Bernstein (September 21, 1876 – August 31, 1935) was an American journalist, writer, translator, and diplomat.

Herman Bernstein was born on September 21, 1876, in Vladislavov (Russian: Владиславов, German: Neustadt-Schirwindt, Yiddish: Naishtot) at that time on the Russo-German border to David and Marie Bernstein. In 1893, he emigrated to the United States, where he completed his education and married Sophie Friedman on December 31, 1901.

His first stories were published in 1900. He contributed to the New York Evening Post, The Nation, The Independent, and Ainslee's Magazine. He was the founder and editor of The New London Day and an editor of the The Jewish Tribune and of the Jewish Daily Bulletin. As a correspondent of the New York Times, Bernstein regularly travelled to Europe. In 1915, he went to Europe to document the situation of Jews in the war zones. He documented the Russian Revolution in 1917 for the New York Herald, which led him to both Siberia and Japan with the American Expeditionary Forces. He also covered the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 for the same newspaper.

Bernstein met Herbert Hoover at the Paris Peace Conference and supported his bid for the presidency in 1928. In 1930 Hoover appointed Bernstein as the United States minister to Albania, a position he held until 1933. During this appointment, he worked on negotiation and extradition treaties between the U.S. and Albania, and received an award from King Zog for his service to Albania, the Grand Cordon of the Order of Skanderberg.

In 1921 Bernstein published a book History of a Lie, an account of the notorious forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Herman Bernstein died in Sheffield, Massachusetts on August 31, 1935. He was survived by his wife Sophie and three daughters, Violet Bernstein Willheim, Hilda Bernstein Gitlin, and Dorothy Bernstein Nash, as well as a son, David.

External links

• Internet Broadway Database – Herman Bernstein in IBDb.
  • Note: two personalities were evidently interconected in IBDb. This Herman Bernstein is related only to the records about stagings in 1911 – 1929.
• Papers at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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