Bernardas Fridmanas or Bernard Naftal Friedman (1 October 1859 in PanevÃÂà ¾ys, Russian Empire – 22 October 1939) was a Lithuanian Jewish lawyer, judge, journalist, politician and an activist of the Jewish minority. He served as the Minister of Jewish Affairs for Lithuania in 1923.
He worked as a journalist in the ', Tiesa and Lietuva. In 1878âÂÂ1886, he worked as a court clerk at the magistrate of à  iauliai, then up to the First World War, he practiced as a lawyer in Birà ¾ai and PanevÃÂà ¾ys. After the war, he served as a justice of the peace in Birà ¾ai and Utena.
In independent Lithuania, he became a judge of the district court in Kaunas in 1925 served a similar function in PanevÃÂà ¾ys. From February to June 1923, he was the Minister of Jewish Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Ernestas Galvanauskas.