With additional backing from the National Liberals, Straucher became a Senate candidate in the 1932 election, but did not receive the vote. According to McCagg, his last years were spent in a dispute with younger Yiddishist activists "who felt that one could only get through to the Jewish masses by using Yiddish." The aging politician died in 1940, one year into World War II, and several months after the Soviet occupation of Northern Bukovina. He lies buried in the modern-style Straucher family crypt, at the Chernivtsi Israelite Cemetery.