Makabi Warszawa, in English Makabi Warsaw, founded in 1915 in
Warsaw,
Poland was a Polish sports club founded by the Jewish Gymnastic and Sports Association "
Maccabi" in Warsaw. It was the largest multi-section
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
The club was established in 1915.[2][3] The name "
Maccabee" is derived from
Judah Maccabee, one of the leaders of the
Maccabean Revolt of the Jewish
Maccabees against the
Seleucids.[4] The goal of the Jewish Gymnastic and Sports Association "
Maccabi", established in 1915, was to "rationally educate Jewish youth".[5] Makabi Warszawa provided sports activities to
Jewish schools, organized excursions and sports camps, trained sports instructors, and attached great importance to tournaments organized on the occasions of
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.[6] It owned, among others playground with an athletics track on Aleja Zieleniecka in
Praga-Południe district and its own marina and bathing area on the
Vistula River.[6]
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abGrażyna Pawlak, Daniel Grinberg, Maciej Sadowski, Bądź silny i odważny. Żydzi – Warszawa. Fundacja im. prof. Mojżesza Schorra, 2013, p. 29.
ISBN978-83-936384-1-3.
^Grażyna Pawlak, Daniel Grinberg, Maciej Sadowski: Bądź silny i odważny. Żydzi – Warszawa. Fundacja im. prof. Mojżesza Schorra, 2013, p. 31.
ISBN978-83-936384-1-3.
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abcdRobert Gawkowski: Encyklopedia klubów sportowych Warszawy i jej najbliższych okolic w latach 1918–39. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2007, p. 96.
ISBN978-83-235-0382-8.