Bernardas Fridmanas or Bernard Naftal Friedman (1 October 1859 in

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– 22 October 1939) was a

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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 ', ''Tiesa'' and ''

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''. In 1878–1886, he worked as a court clerk at the magistrate of

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, then up to the First World War, he practiced as a lawyer in

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and Panevėžys. After the war, he served as a justice of the peace in Biržai and

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. In independent Lithuania, he became a judge of the district court in

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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

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.Liekis Šarūnas, "A State within a State? Jewish autonomy in Lithuania 1918-1925", Vilnius 2003, , s. 183

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