Anne Lehmann (center)
with
daughters Karen Lehmann-Eisner
and Barbara Lehmann Siegel.
Photo by Richard
Lobell |
BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY
Anne Lehmann’s
Tribute To A Son
By Tim Boxer
 OT a day goes by that Anne
Lehmann hasn’t thought of her only son Jamie. He died
when he was 32.
His passion had always been
music. In fact, he went off to nursery school with an album of Eine
Kleine Nachtmusik tucked under his arm.
He was a summa cum laude
and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia, a Kellet and Danforth
Fellow at King’s College in Cambridge, a graduate of Yale Law
School, and an associate at the prestigious New York law firm of
Cravath Swain and Moore.
Nina A. Weiner with
husband
Walter Weiner before the
processional.
Photo by Richard
Lobell |
As Anne’s mother lay in
the hospital, agitated by the long tube in her throat, it was Jamie
who sat for five hours, holding her hand and reading Tehilim
while she slept.
Jamie would drive back and
forth from Yale in Connecticut to Lawrence, Long Island, to
entertain his mother’s 94-year-old father.
So when Anne stepped up to
accept an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University at the Pierre
Hotel in New York, she dedicated her degree to the memory of her son
Jamie.
Anne and her late husband Manfred,
a business consultant who established telecommunications in
developing countries in the Caribbean and Africa, had already
created a chair in medieval Jewish poetry at Bar-Ilan. Now Anne is
sponsoring a new music library in Jamie’s name.
Bar-Ilan president
Moshe Kaveh bestows
honorary doctorate degree on
Deborah E. Lipstadt.
Photo
by Kate Milford
|
Bar-Ilan Chancellor Emanuel
Rackman also conferred honorary degrees on Deborah Lipstadt,
professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory
University in Atlanta, and Nina Weiner, co-founder of the
International Sephardic Education Foundation.
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