Ceire Cion (Hebrew: צעירי ציון, "Youth of Zion"), sometimes called the Zionist Party or Ethnic Socialist Party, was a centre-left Jewish political party in Latvia during the inter-war period. It was led by jurist Max Lazerson.[1][2][3] The party combined the ideas of Zionism and democratic socialism. One of the party's goals was to create a Jewish state in Palestine.[4]
Ceire Cion | |
|---|---|
| President | Max Lazerson |
| Dissolved | 1931 |
| Ideology | Labor Zionism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
History
editThe party won a single seat in the 1920 Constitutional Assembly elections.[5] It retained its seat in the 1922, 1925 and 1928 elections, but missed out on a seat in the 1931 elections by 50 votes.[6] Later in 1931 it merged with the Latvian Organisation of Zionist Socialists to form the Zionist-Socialist Party.[4][7] The new party continued some activities until the 1934 Latvian coup d'état and the ban on all parties. Some of its members served short terms in 1934 at the makeshift Liepāja Concentration Camp.
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ Vincent E McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe, Greenwood Press, p448 ISBN 0-313-23804-9
- ↑ Jews in Eastern Europe. Jerusalem, Israel: The Centre. 1997.
- ↑ Vardys, Vytas Stanley; Misiunas, Romuald J.; Misiunas, Romuald J. (1978). The Baltic States in Peace and War, 1917-1945. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-00534-8.
- 1 2 Leo Dribins. "Latvijas ebreju kopienas vēsture" [History of the Latvian Jewish Community] (in Latvian). Retrieved 20 March 2021., In: Latvijas ebreju kopiena: Vēsture, traģēdija, atdzimšana (The Jewish Community of Latvia: History, Tragedy, Revival), Commission of Historians of Latvia, 2001, ISBN 9984601641, English translation
- ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1137 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ↑ Jewish parties lose two seats in Latvian parliamentary elections Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 13 October 1931
- ↑ "Max M. Laserson Papers, 1900-1951". Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
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