Isidore Shalit

Isidor Schalit (born June 5, 1871 in Novosilky , Ukraine , Russian Empire ; died January 16, 1954 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) was an Austro-Israeli dentist and formerly a Zionist .

Life

Schalit grew up in Vienna and studied there. In 1889 he became a member of the Kadimah (student union) . In 1893 he was their president . He lived as a dentist in Vienna.

He was a participant and also did important preparatory work for the first Zionist congress , was the first "secretary of the narrower action committee" in Vienna (1897-1905), employee of the Zionist newspaper Die Welt , since 1905 head of the Zionist organization in Austria. 1905/1906 he was the organizer of the Jewish autonomy efforts in connection with the electoral reform in Cisleithanien . In July 1906 he organized the Cracow Zionist Day and soon held leading positions in the Jewish National Party that was created as a result. In 1907 he was elected to the large action committee at the 8th Congress. He ran for the Reichsrat (Austria) in Leopoldstadt .

When Austria was annexed in 1938, he was able to flee to Palestine . In 1949 he was Israel's special commissioner for the transfer of the remains of Theodor Herzl , his parents and his sister there.

literature

• Evelyn Adunka , exile at home: about the Austrians in Israel , Innsbruck: Studien Verlag 2002 ISBN 3-7065-1482-6 (review)