Die Anfänge der jüdischen Turn- und Sportbewegung in Deutschland und Ostmitteleuropa

In Breslau, students founded the Jewish fraternity "Viadrina" in 1886. Due to increasing anti-Semitism at universities, Jews no longer felt welcome in the general student fraternities. The policy of many fraternities, which were less and less willing...

At first glance, it is not obvious that this source comes from Jewish sports history and refers directly to the search for community in and through sport. It shows how soccer enthusiasts in Vienna shortly before 1900 emancipated themselves from the...

The text "What we want!" is the program of the Jewish gymnastics club Bar Kochba, which was founded in Berlin in October 1898. It appeared in the Jüdische Turnzeitung, which saw itself as the "official organ" of the club. Bar Kochba was the first...

This source is the amended statutes of the Jewish Gymnastics Association dated May 31, 1909, which were adopted in their original form at the Second Jewish Gymnastics Day in 1905.

The newspaper article from the Jüdische Turnzeitung documents the report on the state of the Jewish gymnastics movement in Galicia. It reports on the difficulties in agitating for the idea of gymnastics and the difficult conditions for founding...

Jewish gymnastics and sports clubs opened up to girls and women at an early stage. Bar Kochba Berlin, for example, already had around 400 members in 1903, a third of whom were female. While the non-Jewish gymnasts often stood in white dresses as...

At the time of its founding in 1911, the Jewish Gymnastics Club in Tomaszów Mazowiecki was the first Jewish sports club to be approved by the authorities in the Russian Empire. The program of the 1913 show gymnastics event presented here sheds light...

In his article, the lawyer and Zionist Salli Hirsch looks at the national Jewish gymnastics club in Germany. The text opens up an interesting perspective on the turn to sport.

The establishment of Jewish sports clubs in the Russian Empire has long been questioned due to its anti-Semitic legislation and illiberal licensing practices. In fact, several cases have been preserved in the archives that not only document the...

The detailed report on the Galician-Bukovinian circle of the Jewish gymnastics association paints a broad picture of the gymnastics and sports movement in Galicia, its ideas and problems.

Memoirs are an extremely important type of source for Jewish history in view of the many ways of transmission destroyed by the Shoah and war. This source is a memoir by Herman Jalowicz about the founding of the Jewish gymnastics club Bar Kochba,...

This essay is taken from the Yizkor book "Pinkes Bendin" and is available in this edition for the first time in German translation and with commentary. In it, the author Shloyme Rozenblum traces the history of the Hakoah Będzin gymnastics and sports...