Avraham Adolf Stand (1870–1919) was a Jewish politician and leading Zionist activist in Austria-Hungary.
Adolf Stand was born in Lemberg (today Lviv, Ukraine). He became a Zionist in the 1880s, taking an active role in organizing Zionist societies. He was the editor of the fortnightly Polish-language paper Przyszłość ("Future") and later Rocznik Żydowski ("Jewish Yearbook"). He was a fervent follower of Theodor Herzl and traveled throughout Galicia to speak about Zionism.[1]
Stand was president of the Zionist organization in Galicia and stood as a candidate in a parliamentary by-election in 1906. Stand obtained 454 votes, but was defeated by Joseph Gold (who won with 850 votes). The election was marred with irregularities.[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. In total Stand obtained 2,585 votes in a run-off against Wollerner. 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.[3]
