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Name
  
Naphtali Friedman


Died
  
1921

Naphtali Friedman (sometimes also spelled Naftali) (15 May 1863, JuodÅžiai, Kovno Governorate - 5 May 1921) was a Jewish Lithuanian lawyer and politician.

Elected as a Russian Constitutional Democratic Party deputy representing Kovno Governorate to the Third (1907-1912, out of 2 Jewish deputies) and Fourth (1912-1917, out of 3 Jewish deputies) State Duma of the Russian Empire. In 1914 he made a speech in which he claimed that the Jews would fight until the victory of the Russian Empire was achieved. He was also elected on April 19, 1920 to the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania on a common Jewish ticket and died in 1921.

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