Bernard Nussbaum obituary, cause of death, family, wife, children

Bernard Nussbaum, a clever, kind man and a trailblazing litigator, died at the age of 84 on March 13, 2022.

Bernie Nussbaum was born in 1937, the oldest son of Jewish immigrants from Poland Feivel and Molly Nussbaum; his father worked as an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union.

He grew born on the Lower East Side as a destitute street boy, then went on to Stuyvesant High School, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, where he worked as the law review’s note editor and met his loving wife Toby at a mixer with Brandeis.

Bernard Nussbaum obituary: What was his cause of death?

On March 13, 2022, Nussbaum died of heart illness at his Manhattan home.

Bernard Nussbaum family: Who are his wife and children?

In December 2008, Bernie Nussbaum married his wife Nancy Kuhn, a political and philanthropic fundraiser.

New York City, Stamford, Connecticut, and Naples, Florida were all home to Nussbaum and Kuhn. Nancy died of brain cancer in April 2021.

They had three children together.