Jewish Sports in Times of Persecution

The Story of Bar Kochba Leipzig
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-95565-573-0
Verlag: Hentrich & Hentrich

Buch, Deutsch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 233 mm

Jewish sports – both in the general German associations until 1933, and in Jewish associations with various political leanings – played a vital role in the public life of Leipzig’s Jews. The history of these sports associations – primarily of the Zionist Bar Kochba Leipzig, as the biggest and most important of these – is also an integral element in the history of the Jewish community and of Leipzig in general. Bar Kochba Leipzig raised the self-confidence of Leipzig’s Jews at a time when they were disparaged, degraded and disenfranchised. At its sports ground in Leipzig-Eutritzsch, Bar Kochba, together with other Jewish organisations, prepared Jewish young people for emigration and self-rescue. Those members of the association who managed to escape continued to contribute to public life later in the State of Israel, and in the diaspora. This book also tells their stories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rubovitch, Yuval

Rohr, Gerlinde

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rohr, Gerlinde

Plötz-Steger, Peggy

Feist, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Geschichte des Sports
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)

Über Autor(innen)

Rubovitch, Yuval
born in 1985, studied history and political science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; completed a master’s thesis on German Social Democracy and Zionism before World War One and a dissertation project on Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kautsky and the question of Jewish nationality; was a lecturer at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the Augustana-Hochschule, Neuendettelsau; received the Yaakov Talmon prize of the Israeli Academy of Sciences for M.A Students.

Rohr, Gerlinde
born in 1955, studied sports science at Deutsche Hochschule für Körperkultur (DHfK) (the sports university in Leipzig) and completed a doctoral programme (Dr. paed.) there; from 1986 to 1991, she was the director of the Leipzig Sports Museum, until 2019 sports history curator/head of the sports museum within the Leipzig Museum of City History; since 1969, a qualified trainer, first, in track and field and, from 1983 on, in a general sports group; founder and current member of the board of DAGS, the German association of sports museums, collections and archives.