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Morgnshtern ( Yiddish מאָרגןשטערן, in Polish Jutrznia ) was a Jewish workers ' sports federation of the General Jewish Workers' Union in Poland, founded in 1924 as an association and in 1925 as an association . In February 1938, the Warsaw Morgnshtern Club was the largest sports club in Poland with 1,855 members. In contrast to the other larger Jewish associations such as Makkabi and Hapoel, the association was politically part of the anti-Zionist spectrum.

Jutrzenka Kraków, a Morgnshtern association, had already been founded in 1909, but an umbrella association was not formed until the Second Polish Republic in the 1920s in Warsaw , the official year of foundation being 1926.

The association became a member of the Socialist Workers' Sport International (SASI) in 1925 . The working language of the association was Yiddish . In 1931 Morgnschtern took part in the International Workers' Olympiad in Vienna with its own team . In 1932 the association had over 100 local groups and around 4500 members. The association grew to around 8,000 members by 1937, before it had around 4,500 members again in the wake of increasing anti-Semitism after the death of Józef Piłsudski before the attack on Germany in 1939. The association endeavored to counter the competitive sporting thinking of civil sport with its own model of recreational sport . B. In football, in addition to goals, points for fair play and a good game should be decisive.

After the economic crisis in 1929, tensions with the Polish Sports Association increased; from 1934, sports were partially banned and the Morgnshtern clubs were banned. In 1937, the Polish authorities refused to leave her for the Workers' Olympics in Antwerp . With the attack on Poland, the association ceased to exist.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnd Krüger & James Riordan : The story of worker sport. Human Kinetics, Champaign, Ill., 1996, ISBN 0-87322-874-X
  2. ↑ Diethelm Blecking: Between “doikeyt” and class struggle - On the role of the left-wing radical sports organization “Jutrznia / Jutrzenka” (Morgnshtern) in the sport of Polish Jews; Researchgate .
  3. ↑ Roni Gechtman: Socialist Mass Politics through Sport: The Bund's Morgnshtern in Poland, 1926-193 , accessed on 17 November 2018 (English).