High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Benno or Beno Straucher (August 11, 1854–1940) was a Bukovina-born Austro–Hungarian lawyer, politician and Jewish community representative, who spent the final part of his career in Romania. A Jewish nationalist influenced by classical liberalism and Zionism, he first held political offices in Czernowitz city. After 1897, he was one of the noted Jewish representatives in the Austrian Parliament`s Abgeordnetenhaus. Straucher, who was instrumental in creating the reformist Progressive Peasants` Fellowship, maintained his Abgeordnetenhaus seat throughout the remainder of Austria–Hungary`s existence. From 1906, he led the Jewish National People`s Party locally and helped establish the pan-Austrian Jewish National Party. He vied for political direction over the Bukovina Jews with several other groups, most notably the Zionist People`s Council Party of Mayer Ebner, who became his personal rival.