Educational and cultural organizations, many of them Jewish, will be the recipients of a sum exceeding $700,000 bequeathed in the will of the late Lee M. Friedman, Boston lawyer and Jewish historian, which has just been filed for probate.
The American Jewish Historical Society will receive $375,000 and some personal articles of historical value; Harvard College will receive $125,000 and Mr. Friedman’s collection of Judaica including books, manuscripts, pictures and letters; the Union of American Hebrew Congregations will receive $85,000 for two different uses and its seminary, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, another $15,000. Other recipients include the Jewish Publication Society, YIVO, Boston Public Library and Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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