Jacob Bernstein-Kogan was a Russian physician,

Zionist Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after '' Zion'') is a nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is known in J ...

, and Jewish community activist. He was born in 1859 in what is now Chișinău, Moldova (then Kishinev,

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, Russian Empire). His father was an important figure in the Kishinev Jewish community. As a Zionist activist, Bernstein-Kogan led the Kishinev correspondence bureau of the Zionist movement. During the

Kishinev pogrom The Kishinev pogrom or Kishinev massacre was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev (modern Chișinău, Moldova), then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, on . A second pogrom erupted in the city in Octob ...

, he and his family fled their home, which was looted. As a community organizer and activist, he raised money for relief and played an important role in spreading awareness of the pogrom around the world. Later, he left Kishinev out of fear that he would be murdered for raising awareness of the pogrom. Bernstein-Kogan was a doctor by trade and specialized in cholera. Before

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, he moved to

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but later returned to Europe, first to Romania and then to

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. He died in 1929 in

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Family

Bernstein-Kogan's daughter

Miriam Bernstein-Cohen Miriam Bernstein-Cohen (russian: Мария Яковлевна Бернштейн-Коган he, מרים ברנשטיין-כהן), 1895–1991, was an Israeli actress, director, poet and translator. Miriam Bernstein-Cohen was born in Kishinev ...

was an actress and director in Israel.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bernstein-Kogan, Jacob Russian physicians Russian Jews People from Chișinău 1859 births 1929 deaths