Jewish National Party

The Jewish National Party or Jewish National Party was a political party in Austria in recent decades, Austria -Hungary and the First Republic.

The party was part of the Zionist movement, was established in 1892 in Lemberg, capital of Galicia. The goal was a representation of Jews in Imperial Council and Parliament, which was proportional to their population share. The main objectives were the emancipation of the Jews and their recognition as a nation and the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.

In the Imperial Council election, 1907, the first elections with universal suffrage, four mandatories could be sent to the House of Representatives: Benno shrubs, Adolf Stand, Arthur Henry Mahler and fork. Other mandates were prevented in Galicia by Polish national pressure.

In the elections to the Constituent National Assembly on February 16, 1919 posted Robert Stricker, journalist and board member of the Vienna Jewish Community, with 7760 votes, 0.3% for the party mandate. In the national election in Austria in 1920 the re-entry but it did not succeed. For the parliamentary elections in Austria 1923, the Zionist party was formed with liberal groups, the Jewish community choice and received 24.970, 0.8 % of the vote, but was due to a change election law, no mandate.

The main policy instrument of the party was up to its collapse, the Viennese morning newspaper, which was then only German-language Jewish newspaper. 1927, the party was renamed the Jewish Party and 1930 in Jewish list, but managed not to enter parliament.