Jewish National Party

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The Jewish National Party or Jewish National Party was a political party in Austria during the last decades of Austria-Hungary and during the First Republic .

The party was part of the Zionist movement and was founded in Lviv , the capital of Galicia , in 1892 . The aim was a representation of Jews in the Reichsrat and Landtag that was appropriate to their proportion of the population. The most important goals were the equality of the Jews and their recognition as a nation as well as the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine .

In the 1907 Reichsrat election , the first election with universal suffrage, four mandataries could be sent to the House of Representatives: Benno Strauch , Adolf Stand , Arthur Mahler and Heinrich Gabel . Further mandates in Galicia were prevented by national-Polish pressure.

In the elections for the Constituent National Assembly on February 16, 1919, Robert Stricker , journalist and board member of the Vienna Kultusgemeinde , won a seat for the party with 7760 votes, 0.3%. In the National Council election in Austria in 1920 , however, he did not succeed in re-entry. For the National Council election in Austria in 1923 , the Zionist party formed the Jewish electoral community with liberal groups and received 24,970, 0.8% of the votes, but no mandate due to a change in the electoral law.

Until its collapse, the party's most important political instrument was the Wiener Morgenzeitung , which at the time was the only German-language Jewish daily. In 1927 the party was renamed the Jewish Party and in 1930 the Jewish List , but it no longer made it into parliament .

literature

  • Dieter J. Hecht (Ed.): The Jewish National Party 1906–1938. In: Chilufim . Journal for Jewish Cultural History. 7 (2009), pp. 109-136 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carsten Goehrke, Bianka Pietrow-Ennker (ed.): Cities in Eastern Europe. On the problem of modernization and space from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. Chronos, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-0340-0718-3 , p. 206.
  2. ^ Lecture: The Jewish National Party 1906–1938.
  3. ↑ Simon Dubnow : World history of the Jewish people. From its beginnings to the present. Volume 10: The Latest History of the Jewish People. The Age of the Second Response (1880-1914). Publisher Hozaah Ivrith, 1937, p. 419.
  4. ↑ Election to the Constituent National Assembly on February 16, 1919 preliminary result. Federal Ministry of the Interior (PDF, 6 MB)
  5. ↑ Parliamentary Correspondence No. 609 of September 17, 2001
  6. ↑ Albert Lichtblau : Participation and Isolation. Jews in Austria in the “long” 1920s. In: Archive for Social History 57, Bonn 1997, pp. 231–253, here p. 243. Election to the
    National Council on October 21, 1923. Federal Ministry of the Interior (PDF, 611 kB)
  7. ↑ Frank Stern, Barbara Eichinger (ed.): Vienna and the Jewish experience 1900–1938. Acculturation, anti-Semitism, Zionism. Böhlau, Vienna 2009, ISBN 3-20578-317-4 , p. 110f.
  8. ↑ Jewish National Party