Bernard Gorin

Gorin was born on April 13, 1868, in Lida, Vilna Governorate, the son of an observant and well-to-do family.

While living in Warsaw, he contributed stories to the Yiddishe Bibliothek (which was edited by I. L. Peretz and Jacob Dinezon) and to Ben-Avigdor's Hebrew juvenile periodical Sifre Agorah.

[2] When he was a young man in Vilna, he attended a Yiddish teacher's institute but lost his interest in it after befriending Isaac Mayer Dick.

[1] His first story, "Zikhroynes fun Kheyder" ("Memoirs From the Ḥeder"), was published in Mordecai Spector's Hoyzfraynd in 1889.

He joined the staff of the Jewish Morning Journal two years later and stayed with that paper for the rest of his life.

He was associated with the Yiddish theater and wrote several plays, including Der Vilner Balebesl in 1898, Baruch Spinoza in 1902, Lebedike Keiten in 1910, A Baron oif a Tog in 1912, and In Yeden Hous in 1912 (although it was produced in 1924).