{{Short description|Russian physician and Zionist}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand Russian|topic=bio}} {{expand Ukrainian|topic=bio}} {{expand Hebrew|topic=bio}} }} {{Infobox person | name = Jacob Bernstein-Kogan | image = Portrait of Bernshtein-Kogan.jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth year|1859}} | birth_place = Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire | death_date = {{Death year and age|1929|1859}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = physician | years_active = | known_for = Zionist and Jewish community activist | notable_works = specialized in cholera | children = Miriam Bernstein-Cohen }} '''Jacob Bernstein-Kogan''' (1859–1929) was a Russian physician, Zionist, and Jewish community activist.
He was born in 1859 in what is now Chișinău, Moldova (then Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire). His father was an important figure in the Kishinev Jewish community.<ref name="Zipperstein Pogrom"/>{{rp|182}} His brother was Narodnaya Volya revolutionary Lev Kogan-Bernstein. As a Zionist activist, Bernstein-Kogan led the Kishinev correspondence bureau of the Zionist movement.<ref name="Zipperstein Pogrom"/>{{rp|179}}
During the Kishinev pogrom, he and his family fled their home, which was looted.<ref name="Zipperstein Pogrom"/>{{rp|89}} 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.<ref name="Zipperstein Pogrom"/>{{rp|178|180}} Later, he left Kishinev out of fear that he would be murdered for raising awareness of the pogrom.<ref name="Zipperstein Pogrom"/>{{rp|182}}
Bernstein-Kogan was a doctor by trade and specialized in cholera.<ref name="Zipperstein Pogrom"/>{{rp|178}} Before World War I, he moved to Palestine but later returned to Europe, first to Romania and then to Soviet Crimea.<ref name="Zipperstein Pogrom">{{cite book |last1=Zipperstein |first1=Steven J. |title=Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History |date=2018 |location=New York, N.Y. |isbn=9781631492693 |edition=First |authorlink1=Steven J. Zipperstein}}</ref>{{rp|178}} He died in 1929 in Dnipro.
==Family== Bernstein-Kogan's daughter Miriam Bernstein-Cohen was an actress and director in Israel.<ref>{{cite web |title=Miriam Bernstein-Cohen |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/miriam-bernstein-cohen |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org |access-date=1 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Miriam Bernstein-Cohen |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bernstein-cohen-miriam |website=Jewish Women's Archive |access-date=1 February 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
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