Jacob Bernstein (February 24, 1885 – December 21, 1959) was an American chess master.
Born into a Jewish family in Kaunas, Lithuania,[1] he lived in New York.
He won three consecutive New York State Chess Championships (1920–1922),[2] and shared 1st with Herman Steiner in 1929, but lost a tiebreak to him.
[10] He married Yiddish stage actress Nellie Casman in 1948, and lived in New York City.
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