# Joseph Benjamin Bernstein (b.1890) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔴 **Dahne — Sarah's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **wife's 2x great-grand-uncle** **Born** 04/15/1890 — [[Širvintos]] **Died** 03/21/1941 — [[New York]] **Parents** [[Louis Morris Bernstein (b.1865)]] · [[Freida Ginsberg (b.1865)]] **Spouse** [[Yetta Kesh (b.1894)]] **Children** [[Raphael Bernstein (b.1917)]] · [[Bertha Bernstein (b.1919)]] · [[Henry Bernstein (b.1925)]] **Siblings** [[Bertha Bernstein (b.1888)]] · [[Jonas Phillip Bernstein (b.1893)]] · [[Lillian Bernstein (b.1896)]] · [[Edith Bernstein (b.1898)]] *GEDCOM I142725154167 · Dahne tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Joseph Benjamin Bernstein was born 15 April 1890 in Širvintos, Lithuania, the son of [[Louis Morris Bernstein (b.1865)]] and [[Freida Ginsberg (b.1865)]].[^ged] He was one of five children, with siblings [[Bertha Bernstein (b.1888)]], [[Jonas Phillip Bernstein (b.1893)]], [[Lillian Bernstein (b.1896)]], and [[Edith Bernstein (b.1898)]].[^ged] As a young man, still single and living as a son in his parents' household, he worked as a maker of leather goods.[^mh] By the time of his own marriage he had shifted trades, appearing later as head of household and employed as an insurance agent.[^mh] He married [[Yetta Kesh (b.1894)]], and the couple had three children: [[Raphael Bernstein (b.1917)]], [[Bertha Bernstein (b.1919)]], and [[Henry Bernstein (b.1925)]].[^ged] He died 21 March 1941 in New York.[^ged] [^ged]: GEDCOM I142725154167, Dahne tree (synced 2026-07-01): vital dates, places, parents, spouse, children, and siblings. [^mh]: MyHeritage biography transcription attached to GEDCOM I142725154167: record snapshots giving occupation "maker of leather goods" (single, listed as son) and, later, "insurance agent" / "agent" (married, head of household). ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* ## Evidence ## Open questions