Adolf Stand
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Avraham Adolf Stand (1870–1919) was a Jewish politician and leading Zionist activist in Austria-Hungary.
Adolf Stand was born in Lemberg (today Lviv, Ukraine). He became a Zionist in the 1880s, taking an active role in organizing Zionist societies. He was the editor of the fortnightly Polish-language paper Przyszłość ("Future") and later Rocznik Żydowski ("Jewish Yearbook"). He was a fervent follower of Theodor Herzl and traveled throughout Galicia to speak about Zionism.[1]
