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
A poster announcing a football match between Sarmata Warsaw and Makabi Warszawa at RKS Skra Stadium on April 23, 1927.
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]
^ 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.
^ 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.
