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Bernardas Fridmanas or Bernard Naftal Friedman (1 October 1859 in Panevėžys, Russian Empire – 22 October 1939) was a Lithuanian Jewish lawyer, judge, journalist, politician and an activist of the Jewish minority. He served as the Minister of Jewish Affairs for Lithuania in 1923.
Biography
He worked as a journalist in the Vilnius Gazette [ru], Tiesa and Lietuva. In 1878–1886, he worked as a court clerk at the magistrate of Šiauliai, then up to the First World War, he practiced as a lawyer in Biržai and Panevėžys. After the war, he served as a justice of the peace in Biržai and Utena.
In independent Lithuania, he became a judge of the district court in Kaunas in 1925 served a similar function in Panevėžys. From February to June 1923, he was the Minister of Jewish Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Ernestas Galvanauskas.
References
- Liekis Šarūnas, "A State within a State? Jewish autonomy in Lithuania 1918-1925", Vilnius 2003, ISBN 9955-9613-5-X, s. 183
External links
- Biography info (lt)
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- 1859 births
- 1939 deaths
- Lithuanian Jews
- Lithuanian journalists
- 19th-century Lithuanian lawyers
- Lithuanian activists
- Minister for Jewish Affairs of Lithuania
- People from Panevėžys
- Jews from the Russian Empire
- 20th-century Lithuanian lawyers
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