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Adolphe Stern

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17: 134:. His campaign against Jewish persecution in the country forced him to temporarily flee Romania in 1894 in order to escape an organized attack by Romanian students. The Romanian Parliament also attempted to exclude him from his law practice, although it was defeated by a small majority. He secured the interest of the Jewish former Italian Prime Minister 161:. He served in Parliament from 1922 to 1926, during which time he focused on the "Jewish question", the upsurge of anti-Semitism, private education, and bringing attention to discriminatory aspects of law with regard to minority rights. He supported the establishment of a 102:
In 1872, Stern founded the Infraitrea Zion (Zion's Brotherhood) with Peixotto, and he was elected its president when Peixotto left Romania in 1876. In 1889, it turned into the Order B'nai B'rith of Roumania, which was affiliated with the larger
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was acclaimed by the intelligentsia and played a key role in him being granted Romanian citizenship in 1880. When Peixotto left his position as Consul, Stern became America's Honorary Consul to Romania.
111:, which fought for Jewish emancipation and which Stern as president of from its founding until his death. After he obtained citizenship himself in 1880, he became a successful lawyer and circulated the 115:, a digest of common law with his commentaries that was circulated in the legal profession and was known as Codul Stern. He served as president of the Templul Coral at Bucharest for a long time. 189:
from 1929 to 1931. His memoirs and journal recorded his campaign for the emancipation of Jews and the tendencies of the Jewish Romanian society from the late 19th century to the 1920s.
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that would help Jews achieve political goals as an ethnic minority, although he was criticized for anachronistic views by Romanian Zionist leaders like
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during the War to inform them of the situation with Romanian Jews and get their support in recognizing Romanian Jewish rights of Romanian citizenship.
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in 1869, making him Romania's first Jewish lawyer. He then returned to Romania and became secretary to the American Consul to Romania,
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in the cause of Romanian Jews in 1915, and in 1916 he went to Italy at Luzzatti's invitation and stayed there until the end of
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organization and which Stern was president of from its inception and until his death. In 1909, B'nai B'rith produced the
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upon its founding. His son served as that Party's secretary and was one of its candidates in the
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in Romania, especially after he travelled to Palestine in April 1910. He published his memoir
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honoring him in a speech when the bust was presented. He became honorary president of the
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to secure Jewish civil and public rights as well the naturalization of Jews in the
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after finishing high school in Bucharest. He then received his law degree from the
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In 1924, B'nai B'rith presented Stern with a marble bust, with
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Stern actively fought for Jewish emancipation since the 1878
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Jewish-Romanian
Bucharest
Romania
Berlin
Leipzig University
Benjamin F. Peixotto
Schiller
Goethe
Heine
D’Annunzio
Shakespeare
Romanian
B'nai B'rith
Union of Native Jews
Congress of Berlin
Benjamin Disraeli
William Waddington
Treaty of Berlin
Luigi Luzzatti
World War I
Georges Clemenceau
1922 Romanian general election
Romanian Parliament
Peasants' Party
National Jewish Party
Abraham Leib Zissu
Balfour Declaration
Keren Hayesod
Lucien Wolf

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