TELOVÝCHOVA A ŠPORT OBYVATEĽOV SLOVENSKA ŽIDOVSKÉHO PÔVODU
PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT OF THE CITIZENS OF SLOVAKIA OF JEWISH ORIGIN

Summary/Abstract: The first Jewish sports club in Slovakia was founded in 1912 despite the fact the Hungarian governers did not accepted the establishment of any non-hungarian sports organizations and sports clubs. The area of physical education (PE) and sport began to develop dynamically after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It was allowed not only by the democratic principles on which the state was built, but also on the conditions of respecting the autonomous development of ethnic minorities in the area of the educational system and culture. To avoid national friction the representants of sport decided to organize this area on a national ase. The accepted nationalities by the state could create their own sport unions and organize events. This possibility was used by the Jewish minority accepted by the Czechoslovak government as a full-right minority,too. The base organization of Jewish PE and sport became the Jewish PE and sport community in Czechoslovakia. The situation after the creation of the Slovak state has totally changed. Jews were xcluded not only from the economy but also from society.It did not come to revive of the Jewish PE and sport organization Makabi in Slovakia after the revival of Czechoslovakia. It was not only that from 35.000 Jewish habitants of Slovakia remained only around 24.000 but also because the Jewish minority was not accepted in Slovakia after the war. The Jewish minority was not registered after the Second World War until 1991. The identity is developing in the rest of Jewish population these days. This process has found the response in the area of sport when winter games Makabi were revived in Slovakia after 1996.

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