The Jewish Party ( cs, Židovská strana) was a political party of the

First Czechoslovak Republic The First Czechoslovak Republic ( cs, První československá republika, sk, Prvá česko-slovenská republika), often colloquially referred to as the First Republic ( cs, První republika, Slovak: ''Prvá republika''), was the first Czechoslo ...

. It was founded in 1919 by the Jewish National Council ( cs, Národní rada židovská) in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 milli ...

. It was the strongest Jewish political party in the interwar Czechoslovakia although many Jews were rather active in non-Jewish parties, be they Czech, German or Hungarian. The party adopted a

Zionist Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after '' Zion'') is a nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is known in Je ...

political program and succeeded in influencing the Czechoslovak government to acknowledge Jews as an official national minority in the constitution of 1920. In an electoral alliance with parties of the Polish minority, it got two candidates elected ( Julius Reisz and Ludvík Singer, and from 1931 Angelo Goldstein, after the death of Singer) at the

1929 Czechoslovakian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 27 October 1929.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p471 The Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants, emerged as the largest party, winning 46 se ...

s and again two (Angelo Goldstein and Chaim Kugel) at the

1935 Czechoslovakian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 19 May 1935.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p471 The result was a victory for the newly established Sudeten German Party, which won 44 seats i ...

s on a common ticket with the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Worker's Party and the

Polish Socialist Workers Party Polish Socialist Workers Party ( pl, Polska Socjalistyczna Partia Robotnicza, PSPR) was a political party in Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938), Czechoslovakia founded in February 1921, based amongst Poles in Czechoslovakia, Polish workers. The pa ...

. It was banned in Slovakia after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia on 25 November 1938 and ''de facto'' after the end of the Second Czechoslovak Republic on 15 March 1939.

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Zionism in the Age of the Dictators. A Reappraisal.'' (16. The Jewish Parties of Eastern Europe, Czechoslovakia – 2.4 Per Cent of an Empire)
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Jewish Politics in Central Europe: The Case of the Jewish Party in Interwar Czechoslovakia
” ''Jewish Studies at the Central European University'' 2 (1999–2001) Interwar minority parties in Czechoslovakia Jewish political parties Political parties established in 1921 Zionism in the Czech Republic Zionist political parties in Europe Jews and Judaism in Czechoslovakia {{Czechoslovakia-party-stub

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