1934 Judaica Lithuanian Sports Club Makabi Kaunas Jewish GOLD/SILVER Pin Badge

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Shipping from Europe with tracking number<br>The<br>Lithuanian Sports Club Makabi<br>is a sports club of the<br>Jewish minority in Lithuania<br>. It is one of the many<br>Maccabi sports clubs worldwide<br>. It was originally established on September 19, 1920 in<br>Kaunas<br>. It ceased to exist during<br>the Holocaust in Lithuania<br>and was reestablished only in 1989 during the<br>perestroika<br>in the<br>Lithuanian SSR<br>. The club participates in the<br>Maccabiah Games<br>. It had about 500 members in 1990 and 200 in 2000.<br>[1]<br>As of 2014, the club supported nine sports (football, chess, basketball, table tennis, tennis, swimming, badminton, wrestling, shooting, and rhythmic gymnastics).<br>[2]<br>Interwar period<br>In 1926, the club had 83 sections that united some 4,000 members.<br>[3]<br>The best results were achieved by the footballers (<br>Kaunas Makabi<br>played 12 seasons in the<br>A Lyga<br>and won 3rd place in 1926), bicyclists (<br>Isakas Anolikas<br>represented Lithuania in the<br>1924<br>and<br>1928 Summer Olympics<br>, was Lithuanian champion), boxers (several members became Lithuanian champions), chess players (<br>Aleksandras Machtas<br>and<br>Isakas Vistaneckis<br>represented Lithuania at<br>Chess Olympiads<br>), and table tennis players (brought the sport to Lithuania; Olga Gurvičaitė became champion at the 1933 World Maccabiah Championship in<br>Prague<br>).<br>[3]<br>In total, the club supported 21 different teams.<br>[4]<br>It participated in the<br>1932<br>and<br>1935 Maccabiah Games<br>========================================================================================<br>As early as the 19th century, Jewish sports clubs were founded in Eastern and Central Europe. The first club was the<br>Israelite Gymnastic Association Constantinople<br>(<br>German<br>:<br>Israelitischer Turnverein Konstantinopel<br>) founded in 1895 in<br>Istanbul<br>,<br>Turkey<br>by<br>Jews<br>of<br>German<br>and<br>Austrian<br>extraction who had been rejected from participating in other social sport clubs. Two years later,<br>haGibor<br>was formed in<br>Plovdiv<br>,<br>Bulgaria<br>, and 1898 saw the founding of<br>Bar Kochba Berlin<br>along with<br>Vivó és Athletikai Club<br>in<br>Budapest<br>,<br>Hungary<br>.<br>Other clubs that followed were named after “<br>Bar Kochba<br>” or Hebrew names such as “Hakoah” or “Hagibor” that symbolized strength and heroism. One of the basic premises behind the founding of these clubs was Jewish Nationalism, and specifically "<br>Muscular Judaism<br>". The concept was that Jews were not only a religious entity, but also one based on a common historical and social background, having special cultural and psychological concepts that have been preserved to this day, resulting in a strong recognition of collective belonging.<br>Maccabi boxing club, Tunisia, 1923<br>At<br>Krakow<br>,<br>Poland<br>there was during the interwar period a deep animosity between the locally-based<br>Makkabi Kraków<br>club and the rival<br>Jewish<br>club<br>Jutrzenka Krakow<br>, associated with the<br>Bund<br>political party. While both clubs shared in the above aspiration to demonstrate a Jewish physical strength, they had divergent political programs - the one sharing in the Zionist aspiration of creating a Jewish state in Palestine, while the other was oriented to the Bundist program of Jewish cultural autonomy in Europe. This political opposition exacerbated their athletic rivalry between fans and players, to the point that matches between the two teams were generally referred to as a "Holy W