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TheJewish National People's Party was a regionalJewish political party founded in 1906 in theBukovinaAustrian crown land byBenno Straucher, elected at theAustrian Parliament'sAbgeordnetenhaus for the (Austrian)Jewish National Party since 1897. The party remained active in interwarRomania.[1]
Benno Straucher was first defeated at theAustrian House of Representatives elections in 1891 against incumbent (since 1879) Heinrich Wagner. He was more successful at the next elections in 1897 against Anton Kochanowski, the mayor ofChernivtsi, and at the following elections in 1900 he was reelected with the support of the Zionists, who chose not to present a candidate from their ranks. He was again reelected in 1911.[2]
Following the 1911 Regional Parliament election, 8 out of 10 Jewish legislators were affiliated to the Jewish National People's Party: Josef Blum, Jancu Fischer, Jakob Hecht, Dr. Isidor Katz, Salomon Rudich, Dr. Benno Straucher, Dr.Salo Weisselberger and Dr. Neumann Wender.[2]
The “Straucher's list” won 20 of the 50 city council seats in 1905, one of Straucher's fellow party members, Dr.Eduard Reiss became mayor of Chernivtsi from 1905 to 1908.[2]
Benno Straucher was elected to the Romanian Chamber of Deputies in 1920 and 1922. The Jewish National People's Party allied itself with theUnion of Romanian Jews for the 1927 elections and Dr. Straucher was again elected from the list of theNational Liberal Party. He was defeated at the 1934 elections by another Jewish candidate from the same party.[1]
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