jewish autonomism

Jewish Autonomism was a non-Zionist political movement that emerged in Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Straucher supported maintaining tight connections between Jews and Bukovina Germans while endorsing a personal version of Jewish autonomism and Yiddishism.

At the time, Straucher's liberal group was also competing with the regional Bundistn and sympathizers of the Poale Zion movement, who supported Jewish autonomism within a socialist framework.

His formulated ideology became known as Jewish Autonomism, once widely popular in eastern Europe, being adopted in its various derivations by Jewish political parties such as the Bund and his Folkspartei.

Simon Dubnow, who was ambivalent toward Zionism, formulated Jewish Autonomism which was adopted in eastern Europe by Jewish political parties such as the Bund and his own Folkspartei before World War II.

McCagg refers this agenda as being addressed to "the 'little man' who was overlooked by the elegant elders of the Jewish community"-an outlook he also attributes to the Galician supporters of Jewish autonomism, as well as to the Transleithanian Vilmos Vázsonyi.