Funeral services were held here today for Erwin S. Wolfson, a leading builder of many of Manhattan’s skyscrapers, and prominent Jewish communal leader, who died yesterday at the age of 60. Mr. Wolfson was a member of the International Board of Governors of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and was vice-president of the American Technion Society.
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