Iacob Pistiner

{{short description|Romanian politician and lawyer}}

File:Election poster in Romanian and Yiddish for PSDR candidate Iacob Pistiner.jpg

Iacob Pistiner ({{langx|de|Jakob Pistiner}}; 1882 – 24 August 1930) was a Romanian politician and lawyer.{{cite book|last1=Kuller|first1=Hary|title=Evrei din România: breviar biobibliografic|date=2008|publisher=Federația Comunităților Evreiești din România|isbn=9789736301889|page=297|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RKIrAQAAIAAJ&q=Pistiner+1882+1930|accessdate=6 April 2018|language=ro}}

He was born in Chernivtsi, Bukovina, 1882, then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, in a Jewish family.{{cite book|last1=Heymann|first1=Florence|title=Le Crépuscule des lieux: Identités juives de Czermowitz|date=2003|publisher=Stock|isbn=9782234068452|page=99|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15mRBQAAQBAJ&q=Jacob+Pistiner&pg=PT99|accessdate=6 April 2018|language=fr}} As a result of the general election of May–June, 1920, in Greater Romania, he was elected member of the parliament, defeating the German candidate by a majority of only 30 votes.{{cite book|title=Deutsche Rundschau|date=1926|publisher=Gebrüder Paetel|page=186|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lnweAQAAMAAJ&q=Iacob+Pistiner+Czernowitz|accessdate=6 April 2018|language=de}}

His political career was tied with the socialist movement. In 1917, he joined Mayer Ebner in establishing the Jewish National Council in Chernivtsi.{{cite book|last1=Vago|first1=Raphael|last2=Cernovodeanu|first2=Paul|last3=Rotman|first3=Liviu|last4=Krausz|first4=Judy|last5=Iancu|first5=Carol|last6=Watzman|first6=Haim|title=The History of the Jews in Romania: Between the two world wars|date=2005|publisher=Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University|isbn=9789653380677|page=286|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qKwrAQAAIAAJ&q=Iacob+Pistiner+1882|accessdate=6 April 2018|language=en}} As a lawyer he pleaded for the defendants in the "Trial of the 500" that followed the important 1924 Tatarbunary Uprising.

He died unexpectedly in 1930 in Bucharest, aged 49.{{cite book|last1=Weinfeld|first1=Eduardo|title=Enciclopedia judaica castellana: El pueblo judio en el pasado y el presente; su historia, su religion, sus constumbres, sus literature, au arte, sus homibres, sus situacion en el mundo|date=1951|publisher=Editorial Enciclopedia Judaica Castellana|page=462|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UhkZAQAAIAAJ&q=Iacob+Pistiner+1882|accessdate=6 April 2018|language=es}}

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