Jacob Bernstein-Kogan was a Russian physician, Zionist, and Jewish community activist.

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He was born in 1859 in what is now Chișinău, Moldova (then Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire). His father was an important figure in the Kishinev Jewish community.^[1]: 182 As a Zionist activist, Bernstein-Kogan led the Kishinev correspondence bureau of the Zionist movement.^[1]: 179

During the Kishinev pogrom, he and his family fled their home, which was looted.^[1]: 89 As a community organizer and activist, he raised money for relief and played an important role in spreading awareness of the pogrom around the world.^[1]: 178 Later, he left Kishinev out of fear that he would be murdered for raising awareness of the pogrom.^[1]: 182

Bernstein-Kogan was a doctor by trade and specialized in cholera.^[1]: 178 Before World War I, he moved to Palestine but later returned to Europe, first to Romania and then to Soviet Crimea.^[1]: 178 He died in 1929 in Dnipro.

Bernstein-Kogan's daughter Miriam Bernstein-Cohen was an actress and director in Israel.^[2][3]