Iacob Pistiner

Iacob Pistiner (German: Jakob Pistiner; 1882 – 24 August 1930) was a Romanian politician and lawyer.^[1]

Election campaign poster for Pistiner, in Romanian and Yiddish

He was born in Chernivtsi, Bukovina, 1882, then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, in a Jewish family.^[2] As a result of the general election of May–June, 1920, in Greater Romania, he was elected member of the parliament, defeating the German candidate by a majority of only 30 votes.^[3]

His political career was tied with the socialist movement. In 1917, he joined Mayer Ebner in establishing the Jewish National Council in Chernivtsi.^[4] As a lawyer he pleaded for the defendants in the "Trial of the 500" that followed the important 1924 Tatarbunary Uprising.

He died unexpectedly in 1930 in Bucharest, aged 49.^[5]

References

1. Kuller, Hary (2008). Evrei din România: breviar biobibliografic (in Romanian). Federația Comunităților Evreiești din România. p. 297. ISBN 9789736301889. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
2. Heymann, Florence (2003). Le Crépuscule des lieux: Identités juives de Czermowitz (in French). Stock. p. 99. ISBN 9782234068452. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
3. Deutsche Rundschau (in German). Gebrüder Paetel. 1926. p. 186. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
4. Vago, Raphael; Cernovodeanu, Paul; Rotman, Liviu; Krausz, Judy; Iancu, Carol; Watzman, Haim (2005). The History of the Jews in Romania: Between the two world wars. Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University. p. 286. ISBN 9789653380677. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
5. Weinfeld, Eduardo (1951). Enciclopedia judaica castellana: El pueblo judio en el pasado y el presente; su historia, su religion, sus constumbres, sus literature, au arte, sus homibres, sus situacion en el mundo (in Spanish). Editorial Enciclopedia Judaica Castellana. p. 462. Retrieved 6 April 2018.

External links

• (in German) Jacob Pistiner (1882 - 1930)