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Robert Louis Bernstein (January 5, 1923 – May 27, 2019) was an American publisher and human rights activist. Career in publishing [ edit ] Bernstein started as an office boy at Simon & Schuster in 1946, moved to Random House in 1956 and succeeded Bennett Cerf as President and CEO in 1966.
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- January 5, 1923, New York City, New York, U.S.
May 28, 2019 · Robert Bernstein was a Jewish American who led Random House and founded Human Rights Watch during the Cold War. He later broke with HRW over its anti-Israel bias and founded Advancing Human Rights.
May 27, 2019 · Robert Louis Bernstein was born in Manhattan on Jan. 5, 1923, one of two children of Alfred and Sylvia (Bloch) Bernstein. His father was in the textile business. The boy attended the Lincoln ...
May 28, 2019 · NEW YORK (AP) — Robert L. Bernstein, a publishing executive and human rights activist who presided over a generation of dynamic growth at Random House and advocated for dissidents around the world, from the Soviet Union to Argentina, died Monday at age 96. Bernstein died in a Manhattan hospital after a brief illness, according to his son ...
May 29, 2019 · Bernstein was a publisher and a human rights activist who founded Human Rights Watch in 1978. He later criticized the group for its bias against Israel and published a memoir in 2016.
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Jun 5, 2019 · Robert Bernstein, who died in 2019, was the CEO of Random House and the founder of Human Rights Watch. He published authors such as Toni Morrison, Norman Mailer and Dr Seuss, and fought for free expression and human rights around the world.
May 28, 2019 · Bernstein served as the first chair of the board of Human Rights Watch until 1990, and then was elected Founding Chair Emeritus. He died on May 27, 2019, aged 96. “Bob Bernstein had the vision ...
