About Iacob Pistiner
Lived 1882 – 1930 (aged 47–48). Iacob Pistiner was a Romanian lawyer and politician.
Iacob Pistiner (; 1882 – 24 August 1930) was a Romanian politician and lawyer.
He was born in Chernivtsi, Bukovina, 1882, then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, in a Jewish family. 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.
His political career was tied with the socialist movement. In 1917, he joined Mayer Ebner in establishing the Jewish National Council in Chernivtsi. 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.
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Who was Iacob Pistiner?
Romanian politician
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Iacob Pistiner was born in 1882 in Chernivtsi.
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Iacob Pistiner died on 23 August 1930 in Bucharest.
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Iacob Pistiner was a lawyer and politician.
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Iacob Pistiner was Romanian.
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