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Kaunas Lithuania, "First team soccer group"

Photograph of 12 members of the soccer 1st team, who fell under the Jewish Athletics/Sports Club, taken in Kaunas in 1925. This photograph includes Mr B. Levenberg in the back row, second from the right hand side. These athletics and sports organisations were often points of social integration between and across Jewish communities in Europe, due to the widespread Antisemitic exclusion of Jews from mainstream sports clubs.

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Kaunas Lithuania, "Jewish sports group performing calisthenics"

Photograph of some Jewish Athletics/Sports Club members performing calisthenics in Kaunas, taken in 1925. This is a synchronised performance that has a collection of spectators visible in the background. Calisthenics is an exercise approach that was popularized in the early 20th century. It refers to a form of exercise that focuses on building strength and muscle through movements that are often performed rhythmically, and use of one's own bodyweight as an alternative to using equipment. This format of exercise is often done in groups, with a synchronised routine, which is thought to promote group cohesion. [Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43609537]. These athletics and sports organisations were often points of social integration between and across Jewish communities in Europe, due to the widespread Antisemitic exclusion of Jews from mainstream sports clubs.

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Kaunas Lithuania, "Jewish students and instructors at the ORT school"

Photograph of some students and staff from the Mechanical Engineering Faculty at the ORT school in Kaunas. This photograph includes an intructor on the left hand side, and a student named Sieff. The ORT (Obchestvo Remeslenogo Truda - Association for the Promotion of Skilled Trades) refers to an organisation created by Russian Jews in 1880, in response to a government-mandated relocation of Jews to the Pale of Settlement. Conditions in the Pale were poor, with widespread lack of education, poverty, pervasive Antisemitism, and lack of economic opportunity due to legal exclusion of Jews as well as the borderzone location of the Pale that disadvantaged Jews. As a result, Jews established a trade school to educate themselves in vocational training for skilled trades. This organization was later expanded to Eastern European territories (including Lithuania), and continued in ghettoes until their liquidation. [Source: https://tinyurl.com/y7garhud].

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Kaunas Lithuania, "Members of the Jewish Athletics Club"

Photograph of 159 members of the Jewish Athletics/Sports Club at a picnic in Kaunas, taken in 1925. The organisation includes men and women. These athletics and sports organisations were often points of social integration between and across Jewish communities in Europe, due to the widespread Antisemitic exclusion of Jews from mainstream sports clubs.

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Kaunas Lithuania, "Members of the Jewish Workers Club"

Photograph of 51 members of the Jewish Workers Club in Kaunas, taken in 1925. The organisation includes men and women. This organisation served as a point of connectivity and community for Jewish workers, with a primary appeal for the more left-winged workers. This appeal was due to the ideologically socialist tendencies of the Club, which championed the rights of workers, acknowledged class divides within the Jewish population, and maintained traditionally proletariat use of Yiddish despite the increasingly popular use of Hebrew among so-called 'Jewish capitalists'. [Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636772].

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Kaunas Lithuania, "Students and instructors at the ORT school"

Photograph of some students at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty at the ORT school in Kaunas. This photograph includes three students, named from left to right: Shapiro, Korn, Sieff. The ORT (Obchestvo Remeslenogo Truda - Association for the Promotion of Skilled Trades) refers to an organisation created by Russian Jews in 1880, in response to a government-mandated relocation of Jews to the Pale of Settlement. Conditions in the Pale were poor, with widespread lack of education, poverty, pervasive Antisemitism, and lack of economic opportunity due to legal exclusion of Jews as well as the borderzone location of the Pale that disadvantaged Jews. As a result, Jews established a trade school to educate themselves in vocational training for skilled trades. This organization was later expanded to Eastern European territories (including Lithuania), and continued in ghettoes until their liquidation. [Source: https://tinyurl.com/y7garhud].

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Klaipeda Lithuania, "Group of Chalutzim from the Hechalutz Organisation at a picnic in the snow"

Photograph of 26 young Jewish adults who are part of the local Hechalutz organisation. The Hechalutz Zionist organisation aimed to train and prepare youth and young adults Jews to survive and self-sustain in Israel, through practical training in agricultural work and ideological teaching of the Zionism. Due to the harsh political and economic situation in Israel, it was necessary to have these skills. This immigration to Israel is in light of the Zionist sentiment of aliyah (returning to the Jewish homeland).

Both men and women are included, with 16 men and 10 women in this photograph. The members of this photograph are cheerfully organised in a close-knit group photograph, with smiles on most faces, arms around one another, and playful poses in the front and back rows in particular.

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Klaipeda Lithuania, "Visiting Jewish youth from the Pasvalys Haesharah Organisation"

Photograph of a group of 18 young Jews with implements, who are part of the Haesharah Organisation. These youth are part of the Zionist training program that prepared young Jews for life in Palestine by teaching them agricultural skills.

These youths are visiting Klaipeda from Pasvalys. Although the aims of this Organisation are agricultural and outdoors in their nature, this photograph has been taken indoors. There are seven men and nine women, all of whom are seated and looking at the camera, some with their arms draped over their neighbouring member.

This photograph was originally donated to the SAJBOD Archives by Savoy Cohen.

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