1936 Maccabiah Games

International winter sports event February 2014 2nd Winter Maccabiah Makabi1936.jpg 200px Poster of the 2nd Winter Maccbiah Games (1936) Banská Bystrica, CzechoslovakiaHistory: 1930s http://www.maccabicanada.com/maccabicanada/myweb.php?hls=10252 Maccabi Canada 22 February 2014 February 22, 2014 https://archive.today/20140222192345/http://www.maccabicanada.com/maccabicanada/myweb.php?hls=10252 dead 12 2,000 February 18, 1936 February 22, 1936 2nd Maccabiah 3rd Maccabiah 1st Winter Maccabiah 3rd Winter Maccabiah The 2nd Winter Maccabiah (he מכביית החורף השנייה) was the second edition of the Winter Maccabiah that took place from February 18 to 22, 1936 in Banská Bystrica, (then Czechoslovakia).JEWISH OLYMPICS BANSKA. BYSTRICA, Czecho slovakia Jewish Telegraphic Agency February 18, 1936 Until 2023, the 2nd Winter Maccabiah was the last Winter Maccabiah to be held and the last Maccabiah to be outside of Israel. History thumb|Postcard of the 1936 games After the 1st Winter Maccabiah which took place in 1933, a second Winter Maccabiah was organized for 1936. Banská Bystrica was chosen to host the Games. Over 2,000 Jewish athletes participated in the games. Following the Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, no further games were ever held. It wasn't until the collapse of Communism in 1989 that new Maccabi clubs were re-established in these areas.Maccabi Movement http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Maccabi_Movement YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 22 February 2014 In 1996, on the sixtieth anniversary of the 2nd Winter Maccabiah, the Maccabi club of the Jewish community of Banská Bystrica established its own annual commemorative winter games. http://www.znobb.szm.com/makabi.htm Židovská náboženská obec so sídlom v Banskej Bystrici pl Participating communities 12 nations participated.Austria Wins Skiing Event in Winter Maccabiah https://www.jta.org/1936/02/21/archive/austria-wins-skiing-event-in-winter-maccabiah 22 February 2014 Jewish Telegraphic Agency February 21, 1936 October 2021 thumb|Bronze medal from the winter games in Banska Bystrica, 1936, in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland’s collection. Federal State of Austria First Czechoslovak Republic Free City of DanzigKalendarium historii sportu żydowskiego http://www.warszawa.pl/ramka/?l=Sport/Historia_sportu/267,6104,0,1,0,0-Kalendarium_historii_sportu_%C5%BCydowskiego.html warszawa.pl 6 August 2014 pl Nazi Germany 1935 Second Polish Republic Switzerland Kingdom of Yugoslavia References Category:Maccabiah Games Maccabiah Games Maccabiah Games Category:Multi-sport events in Czechoslovakia Category:Sport in Banská Bystrica