Jewish National Party Explained

Country:Austria
Jewish National Party
Native Name:Jüdischnationale Partei
Leader:Robert Stricker
Foundation:1892
Ideology:Zionism
Jewish minority interests
International:World Zionist Congress
Seats1 Title:1919 Constitutional Assembly

The Jewish National Party (German: Jüdischnationale Partei) was an Austrian political party of the Jewish minority.

History

A Jewish National Party (German: Jüdische Nationale Partei) was already founded in 1892 at Lemberg (Lviv), then the capital of the Austrian Kingdom of Galicia, as part of the Zionist movement in Austria-Hungary. It took part in the regional Sejm elections as well as in the 1907 Cisleithanian legislative election, gaining four parliamentary seats at the Austrian Imperial Council:

Only Straucher was re-elected at the 1911 election.

The Jewish National Party took part in the 16 February 1919 election to the 1919 Constituent Assembly and got 7,760 votes (0.26%).[2] Its only elected MP was Robert Stricker,[3] a board member of the Vienna Israelite Community.

At the next elections on 17 October 1920 a change in the electoral law eliminated all the minor parties from the Parliament. At the 21 October 1923 elections, a new party, the Jewish Electoral Community (German: Jüdische Wahlgemeinschaft) failed again to elect a representative, with 24,970 votes (0.8%), as the Jewish Party (German: Jüdische Partei) on the 24 April 1927 elections, with 10,845 votes (0.3%), the Jewish List (German: Jüdische Liste) on the 9 November 1930 elections, with 2,133 votes (0.1%).[2]

Notes and References

  1. Joshua Shanes, Fort mit den Hausjuden! Jewish Nationalists Engage Mass Politics, pp. 153–178, in: Michael Berkowitz (ed.), Nationalism, Zionism and ethnic mobilization of the Jews in 1900 and beyond, IJS studies in Judaica, Brill, 2004,,
  2. http://www.wahlen.cc/downloads/wahlen/A/NR/Nationalratswahl_Hauptergebnisse_1919-1930.pdf Ergebnisse der Nationalratswahlen 1919 bis 1930
  3. http://www.parlament.gv.at/BE/PGEB/ENTBEG/VOR/show.psp?P_TEXT=10&P_MEHR=J Unsterbliche Opfer. Zwölf Parlamentarier wurden Opfer des NS-Terrors