# Jonas Phillip Bernstein (b.1893) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔴 **Dahne — Sarah's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **wife's 2x great-grandfather** **Born** 08/25/1893 — [[Širvintos]] **Died** 23 May 1979 — [[Brooklyn]] **Parents** [[Louis Morris Bernstein (b.1865)]] · [[Freida Ginsberg (b.1865)]] **Spouse** [[Meta Baum (b.1893)]] **Children** [[Sidney Raphael Bernstein (b.1921)]] · [[Freida Juliet Bernstein (b.1924)]] · [[Rita Bernstein (b.1925)]] · [[Jerome Bernstein (b.1929)]] **Siblings** [[Bertha Bernstein (b.1888)]] · [[Joseph Benjamin Bernstein (b.1890)]] · [[Lillian Bernstein (b.1896)]] · [[Edith Bernstein (b.1898)]] *GEDCOM I142725153694 · Dahne tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Jonas Phillip Bernstein — recorded also as Yona Pesach — was born 25 August 1893 in [[Širvintos]], Lithuania, the son of [[Louis Morris Bernstein (b.1865)]] and [[Freida Ginsberg (b.1865)]].[^vitals] He was one of five siblings, alongside [[Bertha Bernstein (b.1888)]], [[Joseph Benjamin Bernstein (b.1890)]], [[Lillian Bernstein (b.1896)]], and [[Edith Bernstein (b.1898)]].[^vitals] The earliest census-derived record places him in his parents' household as a single son.[^single] He married [[Meta Baum (b.1893)]], who was born the same year, and the couple had four children: [[Sidney Raphael Bernstein (b.1921)]], [[Freida Juliet Bernstein (b.1924)]], [[Rita Bernstein (b.1925)]], and [[Jerome Bernstein (b.1929)]].[^vitals] Across the successive census records in which he appears, he is consistently listed as the married head of his own household.[^head] His recorded occupation was bookbinder — set down variously as "Bookbinder" and "Book Binder" — and in one enumeration he was described as a proprietor, suggesting he ran his own binding trade rather than working for wages [?].[^occupation] He died 23 May 1979 in [[Brooklyn]].[^vitals] [^vitals]: Vitals, parents, spouse, children, and siblings per the profile frontmatter and MyHeritage biography (GEDCOM I142725153694, Dahne tree, synced 2026-07-01). [^single]: MyHeritage biography "Biography — from MyHeritage": "Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son" — an early (census) record from his parents' household. [^head]: MyHeritage biography: repeated "Relation to Head of House: Head" with "Marital Status: Married" across several census entries. [^occupation]: MyHeritage biography: occupation given as "Bookbinder" / "Book Binder" in multiple entries and as "Proprietor" in one; all sourced from MyHeritage census extracts. ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* ## Evidence ## Open questions