Metadata: Newcastle Maccabi Association
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Postal address:
- Tyne and Wear Archives, Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA
- Phone number:
- 44(0)191 2772248
- Web address:
- https://twarchives.org.uk/
- Reference number:
- S.MAC
- Title:
- Newcastle Maccabi Association
- Title (official language):
- Newcastle Maccabi Association
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sunderland and North East Jewish Community Legacy Project
- Date(s):
- 1935/1999
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 17 items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes a constitution, correspondence relating to sports fixtures and playing fields, copies of Maccabi News, football and boxing programmes, souvenir brochures, bulletins and papers relating to the Amateur Dramatic Society.
- Archival history:
- Held by creating organisation/individual until gifted to Tyne and Wear Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Formed as the Jewish Sports Club in 1934, meeting in the basement schoolroom of the Leazes Synagogue. Activities included plays, concerts and other cultural pursuits as well as sport. In 1936 new premises were opened in Westgate Road and at about the same time the club affiliated to the Maccabi Association dedicated to "responsible citizenship and loyalty to Jewish tradition tempered with high ideals of sportsmanship". During the war the club premises were used first for civil defence purposes, then as a forces canteen, and in the early 1950's the lease terminated. In 1951 a new club was opened in Windsor Crescent, Jesmond, but this was demolished for road building in 1970. In 1974 the Association reopened at the site of the new synagogue in Gosforth.
- Access points: locations:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Subject terms:
- Sports
- Sports--Sports clubs
- Access, restrictions:
- Depositor's consent is required for access to these records.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Author of the description:
- Karen Johnston and Daniel Stoker; North East Museums; 2025
