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On This Day 25 August: Leonard Bernstein Was Born 1918 [View all]
At the insistence of his grandmother, Leonard Bernstein was born Louis Bernstein in Lawrence Massachusetts on 25 August 1918. His parents, Jennie (née Resnick) and Samuel Joseph Bernstein, always called him Leonard, and to his friends and many others he was simply known as “Lenny.” Lenny legally changed his name to Leonard when he was sixteen, shortly after his grandmother’s death.
Both of his parents had independently immigrated to the United States from Rovno—currently located in the Ukraine.
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