Pinkhes Berniker

Pinkhes Berniker was born in Belorussia, the son of a town rabbi. He received both a traditional religious education and a modern Hebrew education. In 1925, he immigrated to Cuba, where he worked as a teacher in the Havana Jewish school. He began at this time to publish stories and articles in Yiddish newspapers. In 1931, he moved to the United States, first to Rochester, New York, where he directed a Talmud Torah, and then to Hartford, Connecticut, where he taught at a Conservative synagogue.