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Arnošt Frischer (1887–1954) was a Czechoslovak Jewish politician who represented the Jewish community to the Czechoslovak government-in-exile. Much more so than other Jews, Frischer sympathized with the Czech National Social Party's aims of ethnic homogenization in postwar Czechoslovakia.

After the war, he returned to Czechoslovakia and was elected chairman of the Council of the Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia. Frischer was ousted from his position after the 1948 Communist coup; he soon emigrated to the United Kingdom where he died in 1954.

References

1. Láníček, Jan (2013). Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48: Beyond Idealisation and Condemnation. Springer. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-137-31747-6.
2. Láníček 2016, p. 147.
3. Láníček 2016, p. 177.
4. Láníček 2016, p. 187.
5. Láníček 2016, p. 189.

Further reading

• Láníček, Jan (2016). Arnošt Frischer and the Jewish Politics of Early 20th-Century Europe. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-4725-8589-9.

• Czechoslovak politicians
• Jewish Czech politicians
• 1954 deaths
• 1887 births
• Czechoslovak emigrants to the United Kingdom
• Czechoslovak government-in-exile
• Czech Jews