Iacob Pistiner

[1] He was born in Chernivtsi, Bukovina, 1882, then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, in a Jewish family.

[2] As a result of the general election of May–June, 1920, in Greater Romania, he was elected member of the parliament, defeating the German candidate by a majority of only 30 votes.

[3] His political career was tied with the socialist movement.

In 1917, he joined Mayer Ebner in establishing the Jewish National Council in Chernivtsi.

[4] As a lawyer he pleaded for the defendants in the "Trial of the 500" that followed the important 1924 Tatarbunary Uprising.