Abraham Salz

Abraham Adolph Salz was a Galician Zionist, lawyer and initially leader of the Chowewe Zion.

Early life

He studied law in Vienna until 1887 and practiced as a lawyer in the then Austrian-Galician Tarnów. He also wrote articles for the Lviv Young Zionist Polish weekly paper Przyszłość, which he was a co-founder.
From 1884 he was active in the Kadimah . He was a participant in the first Zionist Congress and a member of the Grand Action Committee.
He was a follower of the petty colonization ; ten years later, the settlement had to be abandoned again.
At the 8th Congress in August 1907, he was re-elected into the Grand Action Committee. In 1907 and in 1911 he ran unsuccessfully for the Reichsrat. As early as the beginning of 1897, Herzl had thought of joining him, together with Leon Kellner, in the Reichsrat and propagating Zionism there. After seeing that he was not going to penetrate, the project was dropped.