The Jewish Economic Party was a political party of the First Czechoslovak Republic. It was created in October 1925 by Slovak Orthodox rabbis as a regional Slovakian party against the Zionist-controlled Jewish Party. It took part in the 1925 Czechoslovak parliamentary elections, where it got 16,861 votes (0.24%) and no seat.
Jewish Economic Party | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Koloman Weber |
| Founder | Slovak Orthodox rabbis |
| Founded | October 1925 |
| Dissolved | 1926 |
| Merger of | Jewish Conservative Party |
| Succeeded by | Jewish Republican Party |
| Ideology | Ashkenazi Haredim interests, Religious conservatism, Agrarianism |
| National affiliation | Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants (partner) |
| International affiliation | World Agudath Israel |
Bibliography
- Lenni Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators. A Reappraisal. (16. The Jewish Parties of Eastern Europe, Czechoslovakia – 2.4 Per Cent of an Empire), 1983
- Kateřina Čapková, "Židovská Strana", in: YIVO Encyclopaedia, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
- Marie Crhová, “Jewish Politics in Central Europe: The Case of the Jewish Party in Interwar Czechoslovakia Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine,” Jewish Studies at the CEU 2 (1999–2001)
- Branislav Heriban, "Židovské spolky v ČSR 1919 – 1939 so zameraním na Bratislavu", 2011
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