Galician Zionist leaders, meeting here today, decided to transfer the remains of Adolf Stand, who died in 1919, from Vienna to Palestine.
Herr Stand, who served as a deputy in the old Austrian Reichsrat from Lwow (then Lemberg) in the 1870’s, was among the pioneers in the Zionist cause. He was an admirer of Theodor Herzl in the days when Zionism was anathema to most prominent Jews.
He served as president of the Zionist Organization in Galicia and was one of the most popular Galician leaders, both among Jews and non-Jews.
For a time he was editor of Wschod, the Lemberg Zionist Party organ.
The late Adolf Stand was an uncle of Bert Stand, New York political leader and secretary of Tammany Hall.
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