Élections communautaires juives à Varsovie
Sous la Deuxième République polonaise, trois élections ont été organisées pour la Kehilla de Varsovie.
In 1924, the Agudist candidate, Eliahu Kirshbraun, was elected as president and Jacob Trokenheim, another Agudist, as vice-president. The only other candidate for presidency was the Bundist Henryk Ehrlich. Finally, the kehilla executive reflected the composition of the council: 7 Orthodox, 6 Zionists, 1 Folkist, 1 Bundist. The Bund boycotted the 1931 elections in protest over the introduction by the Polish government, in order to favour its Agudist allies, of a “paragraph 20” in the Kehillot regulations which provided the Kehilla electoral commission with the possibility to reject a number of Agudat's opponents who were not in their opinion religious enough. In 1936, the Bund had now 15 seats out of 50 and Ehrlich was again candidate to the presidency, he got 16 votes, the Zionist candidate Yitshak Schipper 10, and the Agudist Jacob Trokenheim won by a plurality of 19 votes.[1]
Party or list | number of seats 1924 |
number of seats 1931 |
votes 1936 | number of seats 1936 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Agudat Yisrael | 17 | 19 | 8,079 | 12 |
Aleksander Hasidim | 3 | - | - | - |
Grodzisker Hasidim | - | 2 | - | - |
Sokolower Hasidim | - | - | 1,366 | 1 |
Nonpartisan Religious | - | 3 | - | - |
Zionists | 14 | 12 | 7,749 | 11 |
Mizrahi | 5 | 4 | 3,163 | 4 |
Revisionist Zionists | - | - | 1,149 | 1 |
"Democrats" | - | 2 | - | - |
Bund | 5 | (boycott) | 10,622 | 15 |
Folkspartei | 3 | 2 | 966 | 1 |
Poale Zion Right | - | - | 1,779 | 2 |
Poalei Zion Left | 2 | 1 | 887 | 1 |
Philanthropic Org. (Mr. Stueckgold) |
1 | - | 1,573 | 2 |
Assimilationists | - | 2 | - | - |
Other private lists | - | 3 | - | - |
Total | 50 | 50 | - | 50 |
Sources
- ↑ Gershon C. Bacon, The politics of tradition. Agudat Yisrael in Poland 1916-1939, The Magnes Press (Studies on Polish Jewry), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1996 331 p., ISBN 9652239623 , pp.200, 220-222