Background
Zalman Bernstein was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926.
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Zalman Bernstein
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Harvard Business School. Harvard University; New York University.
Career
At the age of eighteen, he joined the United States Navy and fought in the Second World War. 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. He worked as an economic advisor for the Marshall Plan.
In 1967, he founded the investment management firm Sanford Bernstein.
In the 1980s, he became an Orthodox Jew and dropped his English name, Sanford, for his Hebrew one, Zalman. He attended Lincoln Square Synagogue and became an intimate of its rabbi, Shlomo Riskin.
In 1989, he made aliyah and moved to Israel. He also founded the Jewish organizations Avi Chai Foundation and Tikvah Fund, and he donated to the Shalem Center.
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United States