The Jewish Party () was a political party of the

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. It was founded in 1919 by the Jewish National Council () in

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. 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

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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. It was banned in Slovakia after the

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on 25 November 1938 and ''de facto'' after the end of the

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on 15 March 1939.

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