Emy Lederer, wife of the dean of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, died unexpectedly in her sleep early Tuesday morning at her home, 3247 Johnson avenue, Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y., it was learned yesterday.
Mrs. Lederer, who came to this country in September as a German refugee, was an authority on the cultural arts of the Far East, and had collaborated with her husband on “Japan and Europe,” published in Berlin three years ago.
Funeral Services will be held this afternoon at the Walter B. Cooke Chapel, 1 West 190th street, followed by a ceremony at the Ferncliffe Crematorium in Westchester.
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