Leonard grew up understanding that business and success were paramount, and “occupations” in the field of music and art were simply off-limits. He eventually built a rather profitable business distributing beauty products.
He eventually got a job sweeping floors in his Uncle Henry’s barbershop and then landed a position stocking wigs for a dealer. Once he arrived and settled on New York City’s Lower East Side, the elder Bernstein took up working as a fish cleaner. His father, Sam Bernstein, was a Russian immigrant who in his native Ukraine was destined to become a rabbi. His birth name was Louis, the name his grandmother adored, but his family always called him Leonard or Lenny, which he officially renamed himself when he was 16. Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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