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Jewish Economic Party

political party in Czechoslovakia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ6189815 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

Lenni Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators. A Reappraisal. (16.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jewish Economic Party” as political party in Czechoslovakia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1925-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Jewish, Economic and Party can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as political party in Czechoslovakia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6189815. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1925.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jewish Economic Party” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.