Jewish Economic Party

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
Politics of Czechoslovakia Political parties Elections

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 Slovak 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.

Bibliography

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