Makabi Warsaw

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Makabi Warszawa
Warsaw, Poland
OwnerVoluntary association
ChairmanZelik Weizmann (1915–1919), Jadwiga Rawet and Stenia Eizenberg (1920–1921), Zelman Bychowski (1922–1923), Borys Ferber (1923–1939)
WebsiteClub website

Makabi Warszawa, in English Makabi Warsaw, founded in 1915 in

Jewish sports club in the Second Polish Republic
.

Makabi Warszawa suspended its activities in 1939 after upon the

Nazi occupation of Poland during the Holocaust, as German occupation authorities banned all Jewish unions, associations, and sports clubs. It was reactivated in 2014.[1]

History

1915-1940

RKS Skra Stadium
on April 23, 1927.

The club was established in 1915.

Jewish holidays and Jewish games (the Maccabiah Games).[6] Its members participated in 18 sports, and competed in Polish sports matches.[7]

In the years 1915–1922, Makabi Warszawa's headquarters was at ul. Długa 50, and from 1922 it was in the Simons Passage and had a gym and boxing halls there.

Beginning in 1925, the Makabi Warszawa football team had as one of its players Józef Klotz, who in 1922 while a footballer of Jutrzenka Kraków scored the first goal in the history of the Poland national football team.[8][9] The Makabi Warszawa football team played, at its best, in the second division of the Polish national football league.[10]

In 1932, Makabi Warszawa had about 2,000 members.

German occupation authorities banned all Jewish unions, associations, and sports clubs.[3][11]

2014-present

In 2014, Makabi Warszawa was reactivated.[12][3] It has five sections.[12]

Makabi Warszawa players took part in the 2017 Maccabiah Games in Israel. There, they earned two gold medals and one bronze medal.[12][13]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Makabi Warszawa | Wirtualny Sztetl". sztetl.org.pl. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  2. ^ Artur Szulc (2013). Judarna har vapen!; Upproret i Warszawa 1943
  3. ^ a b c Maayan Stanton (March 20, 2015). "Playing soccer as a Jew in Warsaw". j.
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  7. ^ Ezra Mendelsohn (2009). Jews and the Sporting Life; Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII.
  8. ^ Stefan Szczepłek. Sportowa Praga. "Skarpa Warszawska", p. 31, March 2019.
  9. ^ "Shoah victim who was Poland's first goalscorer is honoured before Israel game; Jewish star of Jutrzenka Krakow and Maccabi Warszawa, Josef Klotz, was remembered before Poland thrashed Israel 4-0 in Warsaw". Times of Israel. June 11, 2019.
  10. ^ Elad Mehl. "Polin - When Past Meets Present," International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life.
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  12. ^ a b c Beata Chomątowska. "Makabi – polskie flagi w Jerozolimie". Gazeta Stołeczna, p. 8, 11 September 2017.
  13. ^ Beata Chomątowska: "Makabi. Żydowski klub sportowy z Warszawy zdobywa laury w Izraelu". warszawa.wyborcza.pl, 13 September 2017.

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