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B. [probably Hamburg physician and chairman of the local Zionist chapter Max Besser (1877-1941)], The Founding of a New Jewish Gymnastics Club "Bar Kochba" in Hamburg, in: Jüdische Turnzeitung [Jewish Gymnasts' Paper], 3 / 4 (1910), p. 48; 50.
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B. [vermutlich Max Besser (1877–1941)]
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The Jüdische Turnzeitung. Monatsschrift für die körperliche Hebung
der Juden [Jewish Gymnasts' Paper. Monthly Publication for the
Physical Improvement of the Jews] was the central organ of the Jewish
Gymnasts' Association Jüdische Turnerschaft, the umbrella
organization of national-Jewish sports clubs. In its 1910 March /
April issue, an author only identified as “B.”, presumably Hamburg
physician and chairman of the local Zionist chapter Max Besser
(1877–1941), described the circumstances leading to the founding of
a national-Jewish sports club in Hamburg named Bar Kochba.
The ninth Zionist congress, which had taken place in late 1909 / early
1910 in Hamburg, offered a supporting program consisting of a harbor
tour, religious services, and a gymnastics exhibition by Jewish
athletes at the zoological garden's Ernst-Merck arena, a venue located
behind the Dammtor train station.
The gymnastics exhibition attracted a large audience and generated
great interest among Hamburg’s Jewish youth to train regularly in a
Jewish gymnastics club. Since the existing Jewish gymnastics club,
Hamburg Jewish Gymnasts' Association of 1902 Hamburger Jüdische
Turnerschaft von 1902 had reservations concerning these potential new
members due to their supposed Zionist convictions, a committee chaired
by Hamburg philosopher and political economist Ernst Tuch
(1872–1922), who had been a longstanding member of Berlin's Jewish
sports club Bar Kochba, and Hamburg chemist and businessman Walter
Weigert (1883–1952) founded a local chapter of the Berlin Jewish
sports club Bar Kochba in Hamburg on March 14, 1910.
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