Emil Byk

Emil Byk (born Jan. 14, 1845, at Janow, near Trembowla, in Galicia) was an Austrian lawyer and deputy. In 1885 he was chosen chairman of the charity committee of the Cultusrath (Board of Education) of Lemberg, and in 1902 became president of the Jewish community there; in 1890 he was a "Stadtverordneter" and president of the Shomer Israel Society; in 1891 he was elected to represent Brody and Zolochiv in the Reichsrat. Some of his more important speeches in that body were: an address in 1893 against Prince Lichtenstein on the establishment of a Jewish theological seminary; an address, May 4, 1898. against the proposition that the sittings of the committee to consider the charges against ex-Prime Minister Badeni should be public; and a 1898 address on the "Ausnahmeszustand" (state of emergency) in Galicia, which was very well received.

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*Bloch, "Oesterreichische Wochenschrift", 1886, No. 1; 1894, No. 37; 1900, No. 43; "Stenographische Protokolle des Abgeordnetenhauses", 1898, 1899, Index