Bernstein
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Bernstein is a German
and Jewish surname meaning "amber
". The German pronunciation
is ˈbɛʁnʃtaɪn, but in English it is often ˈbɜrnstiːn. It may refer to:
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
and Jewish surname meaning "amber
Amber
Amber is fossilized tree resin , which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Amber is used as an ingredient in perfumes, as a healing agent in folk medicine, and as jewelry. There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents...
". The German pronunciation
German orthography
German orthography, although largely phonemic, shows many instances of spellings that are historic or analogous to other spellings rather than phonemic. The pronunciation of almost every word can be derived from its spelling, once the spelling rules are known, but the opposite is not generally the...
is ˈbɛʁnʃtaɪn, but in English it is often ˈbɜrnstiːn. It may refer to:
People
- Dan BernDan BernDan Bern is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, novelist and painter. His music is often compared to that of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Ochs and Elvis Costello....
(born 1965), American musician who previously performed under the name Bernstein - Eric BerneEric BerneEric Berne was a Canadian-born psychiatrist best known as the creator of transactional analysis and the author of Games People Play.-Background and education:...
(1910–1970), American psychiatrist and writer - Aaron BernsteinAaron BernsteinAaron David Bernstein was a German Jewish scientist, author and reformer.-Biography:His translation of the Song of Songs and his publication of Young Germany established his reputation as a writer among the literary critics of Berlin...
(1812–1884), German short story writer and historian - Adam BernsteinAdam BernsteinAdam Bernstein is an American film, music video and television director and screenwriter. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey...
(born 1960), American film, music video and television director and screenwriter - Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of CraigweilAlexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of CraigweilAlexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil was a British television executive and a Labour member of the House of Lords....
(1939–2010), British television executive and politician - Al BernsteinAl BernsteinAl Michael Bernstein is an American sportscaster, writer, stage performer, recording artist, and speaker.-1970s:In the 1970s, he was a newspaperman, working at Lerner Newspapers in Chicago. He eventually became a managing editor at that newspaper....
, American boxing commentator - Andrew BernsteinAndrew BernsteinAndrew Bernstein is a proponent of Ayn Rand's "Objectivism", an author, and a professor of philosophy.Bernstein holds a PhD in philosophy and is the author of The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic, and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire, Capitalism Unbound: The Incontestable Case for...
(born 1949), Objectivist philosopher - Artie BernsteinArtie BernsteinArthur "Artie" Bernstein was an American jazz bassist.Born in Brooklyn, New York, he started his musical career playing cello on board cruise ships to South America, and also studied law at New York University. However, by 1929 he had started playing bass, and began performing in clubs around New...
(1909–1964), American jazz bassist - Basil BernsteinBasil BernsteinBasil Bernstein was a British sociologist and linguist, known for his work in the sociology of education.-Biography:...
(1924–2000), UK linguist - Bonnie Bernstein (born 1970), sports broadcaster
- Carl BernsteinCarl BernsteinCarl Bernstein is an American investigative journalist who, at The Washington Post, teamed up with Bob Woodward; the two did the majority of the most important news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations, the indictment of a vast number of...
(born 1944), American investigative journalist, Watergate reporter - Charles BernsteinCharles BernsteinCharles Bernstein is an American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets . In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American...
(born 1950), American poet - Charles Bernstein (composer)Charles Bernstein (composer)Charles Bernstein is a composer of film and television music. His credits include the score for A Nightmare on Elm Street....
(born 1943), film and TV music composer - Daniel J. BernsteinDaniel J. BernsteinDaniel Julius Bernstein is a mathematician, cryptologist, programmer, and professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
(born 1971), American mathematics professor, creator of qmail and djbdns, and plaintiff in Bernstein v. United States - David E. Bernstein, American law professor, writer, libertarian
- David I. BernsteinDavid I. BernsteinRabbi Dr. David I. Bernstein is the dean of The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and New York City.-External links:* http://www.pardes.org.il/ Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem and New York City...
, Rabbi at Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem and New York City - Dennis BernsteinDennis BernsteinDennis Bernstein is producer and co-host of the radio news program, Flashpoints Radio on Pacifica Radio. Flashpoints originates from Pacifica Radio's flagship radio station, KPFA, listener-sponsored, noncommercial FM radio that is also carried on the Internet....
, producer and co-host - Eduard BernsteinEduard BernsteinEduard Bernstein was a German social democratic theoretician and politician, a member of the SPD, and the founder of evolutionary socialism and revisionism.- Life :...
(1850–1932), German Social Democrat - Edward M. BernsteinEdward M. BernsteinEdward M. Bernstein is a noted Southern Nevada attorney, philanthropist, politician, and TV talk show host.-History:Bernstein graduated Long Island University in New York with his bachelors degree in 1971. In 1975, he completed his law degree from Widener University Law School.Bernstein moved to...
, Las Vegas personal injury attorney - Elmer BernsteinElmer BernsteinElmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions...
(1922–2004), American composer - Felix BernsteinFelix BernsteinFelix Bernstein was a German Jewish mathematician known for developing a theorem of the equivalence of sets in 1897, and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis...
(1878–1956), German mathematician - Harry BernsteinHarry BernsteinHarry Louis Bernstein was a British-born American writer whose first published book, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, dealt with his long suffering mother Ada's struggles to feed her six children; an abusive, alcoholic father, Yankel; the anti-Semitism Bernstein and his Jewish...
(born 1910), author - Henri BernsteinHenri BernsteinHenri-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein was a French playwright associated with Boulevard theatre.The far-right royalist Camelots du Roi youth organization of the Action française organized an anti-Semitic riot against a production of one of his plays in 1911...
(also Henry-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein, 1876–1953), French playwright - Henry Bernstein (1912–1964), social realist artist, WPA muralist
- Herman BernsteinHerman BernsteinHerman Bernstein was an American journalist, writer, translator, and diplomat.Herman Bernstein was born on September 21, 1876, in Vladislavov at that time on the Russo-German border to David and Marie Bernstein...
(1876–1935), Jewish American journalist and writer - Hilda BernsteinHilda BernsteinHilda Bernstein was an author, artist, and an activist against apartheid and for women's rights. She was born Hilda Schwarz in London and emigrated to South Africa at the age of 18 years and became active in politics...
(1915–2006), South African author, artist, activist against apartheid and for women's rights - Jared BernsteinJared BernsteinJared Bernstein is an American economist who previously served as Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden in the Obama Administration. In early 2009 Bernstein was named Executive Director of the newly formed White House Middle Class Working Families Task Force. He...
, American economist - Joe Bernstein (disambiguation)
- Joseph BernsteinJoseph BernsteinJoseph Bernstein is an Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory....
(born 1945), Israeli mathematician - Joseph Milton BernsteinJoseph Milton BernsteinJoseph Milton Bernstein was an American accused of spying for the Soviet Union.-Career:Bernstein allegedly recruited his fellow Communist T.A. Bisson who had stopped working at the Board of Economic Warfare and began working in the Institute of Pacific Relations and in the editorial offices of...
, alleged spy - Josh BernsteinJosh BernsteinJosh Bernstein is an American explorer, author, survival expert, and TV host best known as the host of Digging for the Truth. He now appears as the host of the Discovery Channel's Into the Unknown with Josh Bernstein....
(born 1971), American explorer, author, and television personality - Julius BernsteinJulius BernsteinJulius Bernstein was a German physiologist who was born in Berlin. He studied medicine at the University of Breslau under Rudolf Heidenhain, and at the University of Berlin under Emil Du Bois-Reymond...
(1839–1917), German neurobiologist - Leonard BernsteinLeonard BernsteinLeonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
(1918–1990), American composer, conductor, pianist and teacher - Lionel BernsteinLionel BernsteinLionel "Rusty" Bernstein was a South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner.-Early life:Bernstein was born in Durban, the youngest of four children of Jewish émigrés from Europe. He was orphaned at eight years old, and brought up by relatives, after which he was sent to finish his...
(1920–2002), South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner - Matt BernsteinMatt BernsteinMatt Bernstein is a former American football standout at University of Wisconsin–Madison, who is currently a free agent of the Arena Football League after a stint in the National Football League with the Detroit Lions. Inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2006...
(born 1982), American football player - Max BernsteinMax BernsteinMax Bernstein was a German art and theatre critic and author. He was the husband of Elsa Bernstein.- The Salon Bernstein :Bernstein and his wife Elsa had one of the most prominent salons during the millennium...
(1854–1925), German art and theatre critic and author - Max Bernstein (musician) (born 1979), pop-punk musician
- Morris Louis BernsteinMorris Louis BernsteinMorris Louis was an American abstract expressionist painter. During the 1950s he became one of the earliest exponents of Color Field painting. Living in Washington, DC...
(1912–1962), American abstract expressionist painter - Nikolai BernsteinNikolai BernsteinNikolai Aleksandrovich Bernstein was a Soviet neurophysiologist.-Life:Bernstein was largely self-taught, yet his work was respected by his colleagues....
(1896–1966), Russian neurophysiologist - Ossip BernsteinOssip BernsteinOssip Samoilovich Bernstein was a Russian chess grandmaster and a financial lawyer.-Biography:...
(1882–1962), Russian chess master - Peretz BernsteinPeretz BernsteinPeretz Bernstein was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence.-Biography:...
(1890–1971), Zionist activist and Israeli politician - Peter L. BernsteinPeter L. BernsteinPeter Lewyn Bernstein was an American financial historian, economist and educator whose development and refinement of the efficient-market hypothesis made him one of the country's best known authorities in popularizing and presenting investment economics to the general public.-Education and...
(1919–2009), author, economist, educator - Phil BernsteinPhil BernsteinPhil Bernstein is a computer scientist specializing in database research in the Database Group of Microsoft Research. Bernstein is also an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and frequent committee member or chair of conferences such as VLDB and SIGMOD. He won the SIGMOD Edgar F...
, Computer scientist specializing in database research - Richard BernsteinRichard BernsteinRichard Bernstein is an American journalist, columnist, and author. He writes the Letter from America column for The International Herald Tribune...
(born 1944), US journalist - Robert Bernstein (disambiguation)
- Sergei Natanovich BernsteinSergei Natanovich BernsteinSergei Natanovich Bernstein was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory.-Partial differential equations:...
(1880–1968), Soviet mathematician - Sid BernsteinSid BernsteinSid Bernstein is an American music producer and promoter. Bernstein changed the American music scene in the 1960s by bringing The Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, The Moody Blues, The Kinks and The Beatles to America. He was the first impresario to organize rock concerts at sports stadiums.-...
(born 1918), American music producer and promoter - Theodore M. BernsteinTheodore M. BernsteinTheodore Menline Bernstein was an assistant managing editor of The New York Times and from 1925 to 1950 a professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism.-Biography:...
, American journalist, NY Times editor - Theresa BernsteinTheresa BernsteinTheresa Ferber Bernstein was an American artist, painter and writer.Bernstein studied with, among others, Harriet Sartain, Elliott Daingerfield, Henry Snell and Daniel Garber at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. She graduated in 1911 with an award for general achievement...
(1890–2002), American artist and painter - Walter BernsteinWalter BernsteinWalter Bernstein is an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s.-Early life:...
(born 1919), blacklisted American screenwriter - William J. BernsteinWilliam J. BernsteinWilliam J. Bernstein is an American financial theorist. He is known for his research in the field of modern portfolio theory and for his finance books for individual investors who wish to manage their own equity portfolios...
, financial theorist
Fictional people
- Rugal BernsteinRugal Bernsteinis a video game character created by SNK. First introduced in The King of Fighters '94, he is a recurring boss in the The King of Fighters fighting game series. As the host of the tournaments from The King of Fighters '94 and 95, Rugal plans to turn all the competitors from the tournament into...
, a major villain in the King of Fighters video game series - Adelheid Bernstein, the son of Rugal, making a debut appearance in King of Fighters 2003
- Mr Bernstein, the business partner of Charles Foster Kane in the 1941 film Citizen KaneCitizen KaneCitizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Many critics consider it the greatest American film of all time, especially for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure. Citizen Kane was Welles' first feature film...
- Judith Bernstein, a pseudonymous character in the British soap opera, EastEnders
- Emily Bernstein, a Minor Character in the Baby Sitter's Club series
See also
- Cantor–Bernstein–Schroeder theoremCantor–Bernstein–Schroeder theoremIn set theory, the Cantor–Bernstein–Schroeder theorem, named after Georg Cantor, Felix Bernstein, and Ernst Schröder, states that, if there exist injective functions and between the sets A and B, then there exists a bijective function...
, after Felix Bernstein - Bernstein–Sato polynomialBernstein–Sato polynomialIn mathematics, the Bernstein–Sato polynomial is a polynomial related to differential operators, introduced independently by and , . It is also known as the b-function, the b-polynomial, and the Bernstein polynomial, though it is not related to the Bernstein polynomials used in approximation...
, after Joseph Bernstein and Mikio Sato - Bernstein polynomialBernstein polynomialIn the mathematical field of numerical analysis, a Bernstein polynomial, named after Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, is a polynomial in the Bernstein form, that is a linear combination of Bernstein basis polynomials....
, named after Sergei Natanovich Bernstein - Bernstein's inequality, named after Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
- Bernstein v. United StatesBernstein v. United StatesBernstein v. United States is a set of court cases brought by Daniel J. Bernstein challenging restrictions on the export of cryptography from the United States....
, a set of court cases brought by Daniel J. Bernstein challenging restrictions on the export of encryption software outside the United States - Bernstein PrizeBernstein PrizeThe Bernstein Prize is an annual Israeli literary award for writers 50 years of age and younger. The prize is awarded by the Bernstein Foundation, named after Mordechai Bernstein, who left money in his estate to establish a foundation in order to encourage young Hebrew writers...
, an Israeli literary prize - Burstyn (disambiguation), a Polish and Ukrainian version of the same word