Abraham Stupp

Abraham Stupp was born in 1897 in Tovste

Abraham Stupp was born in 1897 in Tłuste, a shtetl in Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary. He studied at a yeshiva and later at a gymnasium in Lviv.

He studied history and philosophy at Lviv University and earned a PhD in 1932. As a student he was active in the Zionist movement and helped found the Ahva youth movement in Galicia. He also chaired the Polish branch of HeHalutz.

For many years he edited a Yiddish Zionist weekly and served as general secretary of the Zionist Federation in East Galicia. In 1935 he was elected to the executive committee of the Zionist Federation. He sat on the world and national directorates of the General Zionists.

He moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1939 and headed a company that built housing for immigrants. In 1948 he became an alternate member of the Provisional State Council. He was elected to the Knesset in 1951 and lost his seat in 1955.

He published a book about Jewish Tłuste in 1965. He was married to Klara and had 2 children. He died on 26 September 1968 and was buried in Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery.