
Jewish Sports in Times of Persecution
The Story of Bar Kochba Leipzig
Yuval Rubovitch(Author)
Gerlinde Rohr(Co-Author)
Hentrich und Hentrich Verlag Berlin
1st Edition
Published in November 2022
Book
162 pages
978-3-95565-573-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Leipzig
Product notice
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 23.3 cm
Width: 16 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-95565-573-0 (9783955655730)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
ISNI: 0000 0005 0079 1276
Co-Author
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.
ISNI: 0000 0005 1537 6251
ISNI: 0000 0005 1537 6251
Contributions
Foreword
ISNI: 0000 0000 3982 3945
Translation