Alan and Jayusia Bernstein

Alan and Jayusia Bernstein

Alan and Jayusia Bernstein

Alan and Jayusia Bernstein Presented by The Foundation of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation

Roots Jayusia is the daughter of the Holocaust. She was born after the war in Czernowitz, Romania, now part of the Ukraine. The family was fortunate to emigrate to Peru where she grew up. It was a blessing that Jayusia’s mother lived in Coral Gables more than 20 years until she died last year at 103. Jayusia has a sister Tania who lives in the Dominican Republic where she and her husband work diligently to keep a Shule going.

Alan and Jayusia Bernstein

My grandfather emigrated from Jerusalem to the United States through Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th century under circumstances which are best described in Irving Howe’s The World of Our Fathers. My father lived the American dream rising from what can only be termed “challenging circumstances”, to earning a PhD and having a distinguished career as an economist specializing in international economics. I grew up

in Washington, D.C. I have two brothers, George, a professor emeritus of history at Tulane, and Dan, an attorney in New York. Family Jayusia and I are always amazed at the infinitesimal probabilities that a boy from Washington would meet up and marry a girl

from Lima, Peru. My first job out of business school was with a “private equity” firm (we didn’t know the term then) based in Lima funded by U.S., European, and Japanese capital. This was the period of the 1967 War- while I was connecting with the Jewish community, Jayusia connected with me. We have been married for 52 years. We have two sons, Leo (49) and

Leo Bernstein and Family at the Alhambra

Marc (36). Leo’s career started on Wall Street as a portfolio manager. Three years ago, he founded a software company that provides >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7

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