Zalman Bernstein
Zalman Chaim Bernstein (1926–1999),[1] originally Sanford Bernstein, was a Jewish-American billionaire businessman and philanthropist.[2][3][4]
Biography
Zalman Bernstein was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926.[4] At the age of eighteen, he joined the United States Navy and fought in the Second World War.[4] He then received a bachelor's degree in economics from New York University, followed by a master's degree in economics from the Harvard Business School.[4][5]
He worked as an economic advisor for the Marshall Plan.[4] In 1967, he founded the investment management firm Sanford Bernstein.[3][4]
In the 1980s, he became an Orthodox Jew and dropped his English name, Sanford, for his Hebrew one, Zalman.[3] He attended Lincoln Square Synagogue and became an intimate of its rabbi, Shlomo Riskin. In 1989, he made aliyah and moved to Israel.[3] He also founded the Jewish organizations Avi Chai Foundation and Tikvah Fund, and he donated to the Shalem Center.[4][5][6]
References
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- ↑ http://www.jewlicious.com/2014/05/beit-avichais-jerusalem-and-the-jewish-people/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Zalman Bernstein, Wall Street giant, dies, j., February 5, 1999
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 The Shalem Center biography
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Interview with Roger Hertog by Professor Joseph Weiler, Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization, September 19, 2008
- ↑ Bret Stephens, The Business of Big Ideas, Philanthropy Roundtable
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