Funeral services were held today at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue for Pearson E. Neaman, New York attorney and chairman of the administrative board of the American Jewish Committee, who died this weekend at the age of 58 after a long illness.
A former chairman of the American Jewish Committee’s New York chapter, he had been a member of the Mayor’s Committee on Intergroup Relations of New York City until illness forced him to resign.
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