BERNSTEIN, AARON (1812-1884), Jewish scientist, author and reformer, a native of Dantzig. Bernstein took an ac tive share in the movement for synagogue reform in Germany. He was the author of two delightful Ghetto stories, V ogele der Maggid and Mendel Gibbor, being one of the originators of this genre of modern fiction. He also wrote History of Revolution and Reaction in Germany (3 vols., a collection of im portant political essays. He died on Feb. 12, 1884, in Berlin.