BERNSTEIN, JACOB NAPHTALI HERZ
- BERNSTEIN, JACOB NAPHTALI HERZ
- BERNSTEIN, JACOB NAPHTALI HERZ (1813–1873), Polish communal
leader born in Lvov, descendant of a distinguished rabbinical family.
Bernstein led the Orthodox Jews in Lvov in resisting the establishment
of a reform temple and a secular Jewish school. He opposed the
reforms introduced into the community in 1848 and its first Reform
rabbi, abraham kohn . However, his efforts to force Kohn to resign
were unsuccessful. Kohn was later poisoned, and Bernstein, who was
included among the suspects, remained in custody for a year. After his
release he continued to oppose the Reform and Germanizing trends, with
the backing of the Polish nobility. A street has been named after him
for the services he rendered to the Lvov municipality. Bernstein was the
grandfather of the Jewish scholar J.N. Simchoni . The play
Herzele Meyukhes by M. Richter is based on Bernstein's life.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
M. Balaban, Dzieje Żydów w Galicyi i w Rzeczypospolitej Krakowskiej
1772–1868, (1914); F. Friedman, Die galizischen Juden im
Kampfe um ihre Gleichberechtigung (1929), 51, 60–63; N.M. Gelber,
in: EG, 4 pt. 1 (1956), 247–64; J. Tenenbaum,
Galitsye Mayn Alte Heym (1952), 50.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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