Herman Bernstein (, September 21, 1876 – August 31, 1935) was an American journalist, poet, novelist, playwright, translator, Jewish activist, and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Albania and was the founder of '' Der Tog'', the Jewish daily newspaper.

Biography

Herman Bernstein was born in Vladislavov,

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(today in

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). Herman's parents were David and Marie Elsohn Bernstein. His uncle was the writer and publisher Hirsch Bernstein. His brother was a writer, Hillel, or Harry Bernstein. He also had two older sisters named Helen and Flora. When he was 6 years old, his parents moved to Mohilev, on the

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in present-day

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. Herman emigrated to the United States in 1893 first arriving in Chicago. His father, a

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ic scholar, became sick with

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shortly after they arrived in the United States. This illness required Herman and his siblings to work in sweatshops to support the family. He married Sophie Friedman in 1901. They had four children together, Violet Bernstein Willheim, Hilda Bernstein Gitlin, Dorothy Bernstein Nash, and David Bernstein. who became a long-time newspaper editor in

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. Bernstein covered the

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in 1917 for the ''

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'', which led him to both

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and

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with the

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. He covered the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 for the same newspaper. Herman Bernstein died in Sheffield, Massachusetts, on August 31, 1935. He was survived by his wife Sophie, and his brother the writer Hillel Bernstein.

Legacy

Descendants include Peter Nash, a physician and poet; Joyce Gitlin (Sartwell) Abell, a teacher and farmer; Crispin Sartwell, a philosophy professor and journalist; Boaz Nash, a physicist; and Joan Weber, a visual artist.

Journalism

Bernstein was prolific as a journalist throughout his life, with his first stories published in 1900. He contributed, among others, to the ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Ainslee's Magazine''. He was the founder and editor of '' The Day'' and an editor of '' The Jewish Tribune'' and of the '' Jewish Daily Bulletin''. As a correspondent of the ''

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'', Bernstein regularly travelled to Europe. In 1915, he went to Europe to document the situation of Jews in the war zones. Victoria Woeste writes: :Bernstein, a novelist and poet of some repute, won acclaim for his accomplishments in investigative journalism in the 1910s. He was driven 'to lay bare the operations of Russian totalitarianism, whether Czarist or Bolshevist, especially in so far as it affected the fate of Russian Jews.' His reporting revealed 'the involvement of the Russian secret police in the case of Mendel Beilis, the Jew wrongfully accused of the ritual murder of a gentile boy' in 1911, and he also documented social and political conditions in Russia before and after the Communist Revolution. Bernstein later translated Beilis's ''Story of My Sufferings'' (see translations, below). In the 1920s Bernstein wrote for the ''

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'' and the ''

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'', often reporting from Europe and writing frequently about Russia.

Secret correspondence between the Kaiser and the Tsar

In 1918, Bernstein revealed a secret correspondence between Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II and published it in a book, '' The Willy-Nicky Correspondence,'' published by Knopf with a foreword by

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. Bernstein summarized the contents as follows: :During my recent stay in Russia I learned that shortly after the Tsar had been deposed, a series of intimate, secret telegrams were discovered in the secret archives of Nicholas Romanoff at Tsarskoye Selo. . . The complete correspondence, consisting of sixty-five telegrams exchanged between the Emperors during the years 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1907, forms an amazing picture of international diplomacy of duplicity and violence, painted by the men responsible for the greatest war in the world's history. The documents, not intended for the eyes of even the Secretaries of State of the two Emperors, constitute the most remarkable indictment of the system of governments headed by these imperial correspondents. He remarked that "the Kaiser is exposed as a master intriguer and Mephistophelian plotter for German domination of the world. The former Tsar is revealed as a capricious weakling, a characterless, colourless nonentity." The two, Bernstein wrote, "both talked for peace and plotted against it." In 1915, Bernstein published a book, ''La Rekta Gibulo'', in the so-called universal language

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. It is a translation of the story "The Straight Hunchback" which comes from Bernstein's ''In the Gates of Israel''.

Interviews

Bernstein interviewed many of the most eminent people of his time, including

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, Bernard Shaw,

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Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (; ; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the S ...

Pope Benedict XV Pope Benedict XV (; ; born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa, ; 21 November 1854 – 22 January 1922) was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I a ...

Peter Kropotkin Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism. Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended the Page Corps and later s ...

, Arthur Schnitzler,

Leon Trotsky Lev Davidovich Bronstein ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky,; ; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky'' was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. He was a key figure ...

Chaim Weizmann Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( ; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the World Zionist Organization, Zionist Organization and later as the first pre ...

Havelock Ellis Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, Progressivism, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on h ...

Romain Rolland Romain Rolland (; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and Mysticism, mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary pro ...

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, and

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. These interviews were gathered in several books, including ''With Master Minds: Interviews by Herman Bernstein'' and ''Celebrities of Our Times''.Herman Bernstein, ''With Master Minds: Interviews by Herman Bernstein'' New York: Universal Series Publishing, 1913. Herman Bernstein, ''Celebrities of Our Time'' (New York: Joseph Lawren, 1924)

Translations, poetry, plays, short stories

Bernstein translated a number of important literary works, by figures such as

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, Leonid Andreyev,

, and

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, from Russian to English.Such as Leonid Andreyev, ''Satan's Diary,'' trans. Herman Bernstein (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920); Maxim Gorky, ''The Man Who Was Afraid (Foma Gordyeef),'' trans. Herman Bernstein (New York: 1905) His own plays ''The Mandarin'' and ''The Right to Kill'', were presented on Broadway. In addition, he published poems (including those collected in ''The Flight of Time and Other Poems'' 899, short stories (including those collected in ''In the Gates of Israel: Stories of the Jews''

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, and a novel (''Contrite Hearts'', 1903).

Politics and diplomacy

In the early 1910s, Bernstein advocated liberal immigration policies and was a member of the Democratic National Committee, working to elect Woodrow Wilson in 1912. Bernstein met

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at the Paris Peace Conference and supported his bid for the presidency in 1928. Soon thereafter, Bernstein published ''Herbert Hoover: The Man Who Brought America to The World''. In 1930 Hoover appointed Bernstein as the United States minister to

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, a position he held until 1933. During this appointment, he helped put into place several 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 Skanderbeg.

Refutation of the ''Protocols'' and lawsuit against Henry Ford

In 1921, responding to

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's printing of 500,000 copies of the notorious anti-Semitic forgery

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as well as a series of anti-Semitic articles under the title The International Jew in Ford's newspaper The Dearborn Independent, Bernstein published the book ''History of a Lie'', a demonstration of ''The Protocols''' spurious origins. At the same time Ford was being lauded as an anti-Semite hero in Europe, he was confronted with another lawsuit in America. This one came from Herman Bernstein, the same man who had helped to expose ''The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion'' as a forgery. In the August 20, 1921, issue of the ''Independent'', Bernstein had been identified as the source . . . who revealed to Ford the supposed worldwide Jewish conspiracy. "He told me most of the things that I have printed," Ford claimed in the article, which labeled Bernstein "the messenger boy of international Jewry." An outraged Bernstein denied the allegations and, in 1923, sued Ford for $200,000. He told the press that he was doing a public service by allowing the American people to get a "true picture" of Ford's "diseased imagination." Bernstein was represented by Samuel Untermyer. The suit languished because Bernstein and his representatives were never able to serve Ford with a subpoena; Ford had many allies among the political and law enforcement officials of Michigan and elsewhere, as well as a large private security force. Bernstein and Untermeyer did, however, succeed in getting New York state officials to agree to impound any copies of ''The Independent'' that entered the state. The extent to which this was enforced is not clear. Other libel suits against Ford were pursued by Louis Marshall and Aaron Sapiro, though there was tension among these figures over which suit was most viable. In response to the suits, as well as the fear that the negative publicity was hurting automobile sales, Ford issued an 'Apology to Jews,' the sincerity of which is a matter of controversy. These cases are significant in the history of the jurisprudence pertaining to group libel and

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. In 1935, the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany and revived ''The Protocols'' yet again - and requiring all German schoolchildren to read it. Bernstein published another and more elaborate refutation, ''The Truth About the 'Protocols of Zion' - A Complete Exposure.'' Bernstein died later that year.

Correspondence

Herman Bernstein's correspondence, housed at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research at the Center for Jewish History in New York, includes letters to and from many of the most eminent people of that period in various walks of life, including

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Sholem Aleichem Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (; May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish language, Yiddish and , also spelled in Yiddish orthography#Reform and standardization, Soviet Yiddish, ; Russian language, Russian and ), ...

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, Louis Marshall, Israel Zangwill,

, Arthur Brisbane,

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, Henry Morgenthau, Sr.,

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, Franz Oppenheimer,

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, Constantin Stanislavski,

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, Arthur Goldberg,

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Jewish activism

Bernstein worked with organizations such as ORT, the Central Relief Committee, the American Jewish Relief Committee, and the

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to improve conditions for Jews in Europe. He also served as secretary of the

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, and as an officer of the Zionist Organization of America. Bernstein advocated the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine and wrote about the politics of the Middle East and the settlement of Palestine.

Bibliography

Books by Herman Bernstein: * ''The Flight of Time and Other Poems'' (1899) * ''In the Gates of Israel: Stories of the Jews'' (short stories) (New York: Taylor, 1902) * ''Contrite Hearts'' (novel) (New York: A. Wessels Company, 1903) * ''With Master Minds: Interviews by Herman Bernstein'' (New York: Universal Series Publishing, 1913) * ''La rekta Gibulo'' (book in Esperanto), (Stanyan, Presanto ontpelier, VT 1915) * ''The Willy-Nicky Correspondence: Being the Secret and Intimate Telegrams Exchanged Between the Kaiser and the Tsar'' (reportage; with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt) (New York: Knopf, 1918) * ''Celebrities of Our Time'' (interviews) (New York: Joseph Lawren, 1924) * ''History of a Lie'' (New York: Ogilvie, 1921) * ''Twenty-Five Years'' (1925) * ''The Road to Peace: Interviews With Famous Americans and Europeans'' (New York: Frank-Maurice, 1926) * ''Herbert Hoover: The Man Who Brought America to the World'' (Herald-Nathan Press, 1928) * ''Can We Abolish War?'' (New York: Broadview, 1935) * ''The Truth About the 'Protocols of Zion' - A Complete Exposure'' (New York: Covici Friede, 1935) * ''The League of Men'' (listed by WorldCat as '1930s') Translations: * Leonid Andreyev, ''The Seven Who Were Hanged'' (J.G. Ogilvie, 1909) * Leonid Andreyev, ''Anathema'' (Macmillan, 1910) * Leonid Andreyev, ''The Crushed Flower and Other Stories'' (Knopf, 1916) * Leonid Andreyev, ''The Waltz of the Dogs'' (J.G. Little and Ives, 1922) * Leonid Andreyev, ''Samson in Chains'' (Brentano's, 1923) * Leonid Andreyev, ''Katerina'' (Brentano's, 1922) * Leonid Andreyev, ''Satan's Diary'' (Boni and Liveright, 1920) * Leonid Andreyev, ''The Sorrows of Belgium'' (Macmillan, 1922) * Mendel Beilis, ''The Story of My Sufferings'' (1926) *

, ''The Man Who Was Afraid (Foma Gordayev)'' (Bee De Pub. Co., 1928) *

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, ''The Chief Thing; a Comedy for Some, a Drama for Others'' (Pub. for the Theatre guild by Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926) * Nikolai Evreinov, ''The Radio kiss; A Comedy of Tomorrow in Three Acts'' (no date) * Fritz Gottwald, ''Salto mortale : A play in three acts'' (1929) * Georg Kaiser, ''The Phantom Lover'' (Brentano's, 1928) * Ludwig Thoma, ''Morality: a Comedy in Three Acts'' (1905) *

, ''The Forged Coupon and Other Stories'' (J.S. Ogilvie, 1912) * , ''Vera, a Drama in Four Acts'' (1922)

References

External links

* ** Note: two personalities were evidently interconnected in IBDb. This Herman Bernstein is related only to the records about stagings in 1911 – 1929. * * *
Books authored and translated by Herman Bernstein at Google Play

Hermann Bernstein at Jewish Encyclopedia website

More about Neustadt-Schirwindt where Bernstein was born

Papers at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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