Agudas Israel (Latvia)

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Agudas Israel
אגודת ישראל
President Mordehai Dubin
DissolvedMay 1934
Ideology Conservatism
Hasidism

Agudas Israel (Hebrew for "Union of Israel") was a political party in Latvia in the inter-war period. Primarily a party of the Orthodox Jews, it was the most conservative of the Jewish parties in the country, seeking to limit the power of state monopolies. It was led by Mordehai Dubin. [1]

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The party first contested national elections in 1922, when it won two seats in the 1st Saeima. [2] It retained both seats in the 2nd Saeima after the 1925 elections, but was reduced to one seat in the 1928 elections. The 1931 elections saw the party win two seats in the 4th Saeima. However, after the 1934 Latvian coup d'état multi-party elections were not held again until 1990.

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  1. Vincent E McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe, Greenwood Press, p448 ISBN   0-313-23804-9
  2. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1143 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7