# Joseph Benjamin Bernstein (b.1890)
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> 🔴 **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)]]
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## Narrative
Joseph Benjamin Bernstein was born 15 April 1890 in Å irvintos, 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).
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