Herman Bernstein
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Herman Bernstein (September 21, 1876 - August 31, 1935) was a Jewish-American journalist, writer, translator, and diplomat.
Herman Bernstein was born on September 21, 1876 in Neustadt-Schwerwindt 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 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.
According to GPU agent Pavlovsky(Yakshin), arrested in Germany in 1929, Bernstein allegedly worked for both GPU and Comintern, arranging pro-Soviet coverage in American press. One of his main goals was to portray White army and White emigres as anti-Semitic instigators of pogroms and suppress coverage of pogroms by units of the Red Army and other forces allied to Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war. GPU supplied Bernstein with forged documents for publication. In 1921 Bernstein allegedly received 17 000 gold rubles for his services.[1]
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