Jewish Sports Club Hagibor

Collection description

Scope and content:: The fonds contains correspondence, photo albums, a plan of the Hagibor playground, athletic records, clippings, and an invitation to a jubilee congress.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Zionist-oriented Jewish sports club Hagibor was founded in 1914. Since 1919, the club had had the opportunity to train on the pitch of Sparta Prague in Letná. In 1926 it lost that opportunity. Therefore, in 1927, the club built its own sports complex on the border of Vinohrady and Strašnice. The club consisted of several sports sections, the most important being the sections of athletics, soccer and swimming. At the international level, swimmers excelled particularly. They represented Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and 1930s in international competitions. In addition to sport activities the club also organised summer camps for young people and social events. After the demise of the club during the World War Two its premises were changed to an internment and labor camp.

Subject terms:: Architectural drawings; Correspondence; Newspaper clippings; Photographs; Sports; Sports--Sports clubs

Finding aids:: Hamáčková, V: Židovský sportovní klub Hagibor, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1975, 1 s., ev. č. 197.