TuS Bar Kochba Nürnberg

TuS Bar Kochba, is a German association football club based in Nürnberg, Bavaria established in 1913 as a social-sport club for the Jewish community in Nürnberg.

TuS Bar Kochba Nürnberg
Full nameTuS Bar Kochba Nürnberg e.V.
Founded1913

The club only fields a side in the senior A-league of the Bavarian Football Association, a competition made up of older players.[1][2]

History

TuS Bar Kochba was founded in 1913 as the "Jewish Gymnastics and Sports Club Nuremberg". It was named after Simon bar Kokhba, a Jewish rebel. In 1939, the Nazi authorities dissolved the association. It was refounded in 1966 by Arno Hamburger and Paul Baruch. It is no longer exclusively Jewish.[3]

A Berlin chapter, the Bar Kochba Berlin, was also formed.[4]

See also

References
  1. "TuS Bar Kochba Nürnberg e.V." www.tusbarkochba.de. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  2. 2008 Table of the Senioren A Kreisliga Nürnberg – Fürth Fussball.de, accessed: 11 June 2008
  3. "Die Chronik des TuS Bar Kochba". nordbayern.de (in German). Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  4. "The Bar Kochba Berlin Team At The German Maccabee Championship Games in Hamburg (June 1930)". GHDI. Retrieved 26 March 2020.


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