Exhibition: “To those who the bell rang for …”

"To Those who the bell rang for ..." is the title of an exhibition and commemoration of those Jewish sportsmen, who competed at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 in who competed and had success under the shadow of the swatiska. The exhibition will be open between 1st  -31th August 2015. Location: Hungary Berlin Embassy, Unter [...]

Fun Run Again! Community running race in the Jewish quarter

Step by step the Jewish Community! The Maccabi VAC will host the Fun Run running race in Budapest's Jewish quarter for the fifth time, on June 7, Sunday. This is a unique community sport event in which all participants support various Jewish and non-Jewish organizations with the payment of entry fees. A beneficial reference is [...]

Exhibition in London about Jewish athletes died in the Holocaust

A unique exhibition about Jewish sport diplomats and athletes died in the Holocaust was organized in December 2014 by Maccabi VAC and Balassi Institute.  The exhibition was held in the Balassi Institute in London. Michael Ziff represented Maccabi GB in the opening ceremony of the event. According to our plans the exhibition will be presented [...]

Lectures about Jewish athletes – Muskeljudentum

In the first quarter of 2014, for the first time MAZSIKE, Szombat Magazine and Maccabi VAC organized lecture series about Jewish sport history.  Great speakers gave a speech about several interesting and thought-provoking topics like: Sport propaganda in the fascist Italy, Hungarian coaches and football players in Mussolini's Italy, the Jewish MTK Budapest, Vienna-Brno-Brooklyn as [...]