Hakoach Berlin - Photo album of friends and participants in the Jewish Sports Movement games in Berlin, 1946-7. The ...

Hakoach Berlin - Photo album of friends and participants in the Jewish Sports Movement games in Berlin, 1946-7. The album includes 31 photographs of various sizes, a number of newspaper clippings and a few documents in German about members of the Jewish Sports Movement, including games from the years when the movement resumed its activity after the Second World War. Some photos are out of place and some of the album pages are loose. *Maccabi Berlin was founded in 1898 as "Bar Kokhba Berlin" and was one of the largest Jewish sports organizations in the world in 1930, with 40,000 members from 24 countries. Some of the Bar Kokhba movement's activity was devoted to the promotion of physical education and Jewish tradition. The movement also had a football department that competed in the municipal leagues of Berlin between 1911-1929. In 1929 the Bar Kokhba movement united with Hakoach Berlin in order to establish the Bar Kokhba-HaKoach movement. HaKoach Berlin was a relatively successful team that managed to compete in the lower leagues of the German championship and was considered a fairly successful professional football club between 1925 and 1927. In the 1930s, with the rise of the Nazi party, Jewish soccer teams were rejected by the sports associations and not allowed to participate in general competitions and restricted to tournaments and limited leagues. In 1938 the Jewish groups were eliminated altogether. After World War II and the renewal of the Jewish community in Berlin, Jewish sports associations were reestablished.