Adolf Stand

Avraham Adolf Stand (1870–1919) was a Jewish politician and leading Zionist activist in Austria-Hungary.

He was the editor of the fortnightly Polish-language paper Przyszłość ("Future") and later Rocznik Żydowski ("Jewish Yearbook").

[1] Stand was president of the Zionist organization in Galicia and stood as a candidate in a parliamentary by-election in 1906.

[2] In the 1907 elections to the Austrian parliament, the first to be held with universal suffrage, Stand won the Brody seat as a candidate of the Jewish National Party.

He had obtained the support of the Jewish Social Democratic Party, who argued that Stand, despite being a reactionary, represented the lesser evil of the two run-off candidates.