A large crowd attended funeral services today for Nahum Friedman, widely known as the Bojaner rabbi, who died at Rothschild hospital yesterday. He was 68 years old.
Among those attending the funeral were Desider Friedman, president of the Vienna Jewish community, and the rabbis of Kopyczng, Czortkow and Wisnitz. He was buried in his family’s vault in the Vienna cemetery.
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