The Maccabiah is an international sports competition that is held every four years in Israel. It is attended by Jewish athletes from around the world and is sometimes dubbed “the Jewish Olympics.” The Maccabiah was conceived by Yosef Yekutieli in 1912, and after much planning the first competition was held in 1919 during Succot with more than 500 athletes and thousands of spectators from around the world.
This poster is from the second Maccabiah held in Tel Aviv in 1935. 1,250 sportsmen and women from 28 countries participated in the Second Maccabiah, competing in 18 events. For the last time in many years, delegations arrived from Central and Eastern Europe - Estonia, Danzig, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary - and from Arab countries - Morocco, Libya, Egypt and Syria. The Danzig delegation marched neither with the Polish nor the German delegations, so as not to declare allegiance to either state in the confrontation between them which stirred up the European continent at the time.
Delegations from Italy, Belgium, Holland, Turkey, France and South Africa arrived for the first time. At the last moment, a sizable delegation from Germany surprised the Maccabiah organizers by announcing that they had received permission to join in the Games.
The Maccabiah is an international sports competition that is held every four years in Israel. It is attended by Jewish athletes from around the world and is sometimes dubbed “the Jewish Olympics.” The Maccabiah was conceived by Yosef Yekutieli in 1912, and after much planning the first competition was held in 1919 during Succot with more than 500 athletes and thousands of spectators from around the world.
This poster is from the second Maccabiah held in Tel Aviv in 1935. 1,250 sportsmen and women from 28 countries participated in the Second Maccabiah, competing in 18 events. For the last time in many years, delegations arrived from Central and Eastern Europe - Estonia, Danzig, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary - and from Arab countries - Morocco, Libya, Egypt and Syria. The Danzig delegation marched neither with the Polish nor the German delegations, so as not to declare allegiance to either state in the confrontation between them which stirred up the European continent at the time.
Delegations from Italy, Belgium, Holland, Turkey, France and South Africa arrived for the first time. At the last moment, a sizable delegation from Germany surprised the Maccabiah organizers by announcing that they had received permission to join in the Games.
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