Benno Straucher

Benno or Beno Straucher was a Bukovinaborn AustroHungarian lawyer, politician and Jewish community representative, who spent the final part of his career in Romania. A Jewish nationalist influenced by classical liberalism and Zionism, he first held political offices in Czernowitz city. After 1897, he was one of the noted Jewish representatives in the Austrian Parliaments upper chamber . Straucher, who was instrumental in creating the reformist Progressive Peasants Fellowship, maintained his Abgeordnetenhaus seat throughout the remainder of AustriaHungarys existence. From 1906, he led the Jewish National Peoples Party locally and helped establish the panAustrian Jewish National Party. He vied for political direction over the Bukovina Jews with several other groups, most notably the Zionist Peoples Council Party of Mayer Ebner, who became his personal rival.

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