Democratic Jewish Union

The Democratic Jewish Union was a political coalition in inter-war Lithuania.

History

The ZDS contested the 1920 Lithuanian [parliamentary election|Constituent Assembly elections] in Lithuania in 1920, receiving 6.6% of the vote and winning six seats. The six elected members were Simon Rosenbaum, Max Soloveitzik, Dr. Nachman Rachmilewitz, R. Abraham Popelas, Nachman Fridman and Ozer Finkelstein. After Fridman's death he was replaced in the assembly by Samuel Landau.
The party did not contest the 1922 or 1923 elections, but returned in 1926 as a merger of the Zionist faction and the Folkspartei, when it won three seats. However, a military coup saw the Seimas dissolved in December 1926 and no further multi-party elections were held again until the 1990.