| LC control no. | n 79085149 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Krisher, Bernard, 1931-2019 |
| Located | Queens (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1931-08-09 |
| Death date | 2019-03-05 |
| Place of birth | Frankfurt am Main (Germany) |
| Place of death | Tokyo (Japan) |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists Philanthropists |
| Found in | His Nihonjin ni umarete son ka toku ka, 1978: t.p. (B. Kurisshā) colophon (copr. Bernard Krisher; b. 1931; ch., Tokyo br. off., Newsweek) New York times WWW site, viewed Mar. 20, 2019 (Bernard Krisher; b. Aug. 9, 1931, Frankfurt; the family fled Nazi Germany in 1937 and passed through France, Spain, and Portugal before heading for the United States and settling in New York City, in Queens; drafted into the Army in 1953; spent two years in Germany as a reporter for Stars and stripes; then worked for The New York world-telegram and The sun in New York; joined Newsweek in 1962 after moving to Japan, where he became its Tokyo bureau chief in 1967; later left Newsweek for Fortune magazine; d. Mar. 5, Tokyo, aged 87; idealistic, driven journalist who founded Cambodia's first English-language daily newspaper and, as a philanthropist, established a hospital, an orphanage, and hundreds of schools around Cambodia) |
| Associated language | eng jpn |
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