Bernardas Fridmanas

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.

Bernardas Fridmanas

Biography

He worked as a journalist in the Vilnius Gazette, 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.[1]

References
  1. Liekis Šarūnas, "A State within a State? Jewish autonomy in Lithuania 1918-1925", Vilnius 2003, ISBN 9955-9613-5-X, s. 183
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