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Archive Home > 2009 > November > 02 > Seymour Fromer, 87, archivist of Jewish history in the West

Seymour Fromer, 87, archivist of Jewish history in the West

By Dennis Hevesi / The Bulletin
November 2, 2009

Seymour Fromer, who with his wife, Rebecca, opened a museum in California that eventually came to hold one of the largest collections of Judaica in North America, including archives documenting the history of Jews in the American West, died Oct. 25 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 87.

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