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Jewish Sport in the Interwar Period

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Felix Simmenauer, Werbeplakat für den Film "Makkabiah 1932", Berlin 1932, Fotografie
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Felix Simmenauer, advertising poster for the film “Maccabiah 1932”, Berlin 1932, photograph. Inv.-Nr. FOT 90/19/3/002, Schenkung von Felix Simmenauer / Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Free access - no reuse
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Martin Borkowski-Saruhan
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Footnotes
1.
Jochen Böhler: Civil War in Central Europe, 1918–1921: The Reconstruction of Poland. Oxford 2018, p. 159 f.
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Cf. annual report for 1938 of the sports association, like Froyen-onteyl in “Morgnshtern”, in: Jahresbericht 1938, p.7. For a bibliographical overview of Zbąszyń and the “Polenaktion” see. Noam Corb: “From Tears Come Rivers, from Rivers Come Oceans, from Oceans - a Flood”: The Polenaktion, 1938-1939. In: Yad Vashem Studies 48 (2020), pp. 21-69, here: p. 23 f., FN 5.
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On exclusionary practices (after) 1933 cf.: Lorenz Peiffer / Henry Wahlig: Inhaltliche Einführung. In: idem (eds.): „Unser Verein ist judenfrei!“ Ausgrenzung im deutschen Sport: Eine Quellensammlung. Berlin /Boston 2017, pp. XLVIII–LXXXIV.
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On exclusionary practices (after) 1933 cf.: Lorenz Peiffer / Henry Wahlig: Inhaltliche Einführung. In: idem (eds.): „Unser Verein ist judenfrei!“ Ausgrenzung im deutschen Sport: Eine Quellensammlung. Berlin /Boston 2017, pp. XLVIII–LXXXIV.
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Cf. the entry on Felix Simmenauer at filmportal.de, URL: https://www.filmportal.de/person/felix-simmenauer_d125914e309549fb8d601dbf277bbb80 (26.03.2025).
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Cf. also Christopher Browning, Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp, New York 2010, pp. 6, 16f., which makes a similar argument, though primarily in relation to idealized childhood narratives from the interwar period in oral history interviews.
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ack Jacobs: Sport. An overview. In: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europa. URL: https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/2181 (06.01.20265).
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For a more detailed discussion of Morgnshtern, see: Roni Gechtman: Socialist Mass Politics through Sports: The Bund’s Morgnshtern in Poland, 1926–1939. In: Journal of Sport History 26 (1999), No. 2, pp. 326–352.
9.
Diethelm Blecking: Po’el, Ha-. In: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europa. URL: https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/150 (06.01.2025).
10.
See the response by user Marecki384 from 12 July 2016 in the thread “II RP: sport, kluby sportowe, zawodnicy…” on the forum Historycy.org. URL:http://www.historycy.org/index.php?showtopic=89379

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