Maccabi World Union
INGO | |
Purpose | Sports |
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Headquarters | Kfar Maccabiah[1] |
Location | |
Region served | Worldwide |
President | Jeanne Futeran |
Website | maccabi |
Maccabi World Union is an international Jewish sports organisation spanning five continents (Africa, North America, South America, Australia, Europe) and more than 50 countries, with some 400,000 members.[2] The Maccabi World Union organises the Maccabiah Games, a prominent international Jewish athletics event.
The organisation comprises six confederations: Maccabi Israel, European Maccabi confederation, confederation Maccabi North America, confederation Maccabi Latin America, Maccabi South Africa, and Maccabi Australia.
Etymology
The movement is named after the
History
As early as the 19th century, Jewish sports clubs were founded in Eastern and Central Europe. The first club was the Israelite Gymnastic Association Constantinople (German: Israelitischer Turnverein Konstantinopel) founded in 1895 in Istanbul, Turkey by Jews of German and Austrian extraction who had been rejected from participating in other social sport clubs. Two years later, haGibor was formed in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and 1898 saw the founding of Bar Kochba Berlin along with Vivó és Athletikai Club in Budapest, Hungary.
Other clubs that followed were named after “
In 1906, the first Jewish gymnastics club was formed in British Palestine. Clubs later would spring up in other cities. By 1912, all of them joined the Maccabi Federation of Israel. That same year, the first relations were established between them and their European counterparts, when a decision was taken at the Maccabi Conference in Berlin to begin group trips to British Palestine.
Maccabi GB is a member of the English
The Maccabi World Union was created at the 12th World Jewish Congress in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia in 1921. It was then decided by the secretariat of Jewish sport leaders to form one umbrella organization for all Jewish sports associations. Its aims were defined as working "foster physical education, belief in Jewish heritage and the Jewish nation, and to work actively for the rebuilding of our own country and for the preservation of our people".[2] In 1960, the International Olympic Committee officially recognized the Maccabi World Union as an "Organization of Olympic Standing".[4]
See also
- Maccabiah Games
- Maccabi Hatzair
- Hapoel
- European Maccabi Games 2015
- Sports in Israel
Further reading
- Belda, Maciej Władysław. The Maccabees of Sport: Jewish Sport in Kraków. Kraków: Historical Museum of Kraków & Stara Synagoga, 2012. ISBN 8375771201.
References
- ^ "Kfar Maccabiah, Hotel – Convention center – History". Kmc.co.il. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
- ^ a b "Maccabi World Union". Maccabiworld.org. Archived from the original on 2005-10-30. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
- ^ Full list of NCVYS members Archived 2013-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Building continuity for the Maccabiah with newly-granted IOC status". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2009-07-04.[permanent dead link]
External links
- Official website
- The Maccabi Business Forum website
- The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS)
- European Maccabi Confederation Events Calendar