Birth Name: Ben Shalom Bernanke
Place of Birth: Augusta, Georgia
Date of Birth: December 13, 1953
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Ben Bernanke is a Jewish-American economist who served as the 14th Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2006 until 2014.
He was born in Georgia to Philip and Edna Bernanke, and attended the Ohav Shalom synagogue in Dillon, South Carolina. His maternal grandfather, Harold Friedman, was a hazzan (service leader) and Hebrew teacher.
Bernanke’s paternal grandfather, Jonas Bernanke, was born in what is now Ukraine. He moved to the United States with his wife on June 30, 1921.
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