Maccabbee Movement Here Similar to One in Europe to Be Started Shortly

The first steps toward the establishment of an American Maccabee movement along the same lines of the organization in Europe and Palestine will soon be taken, it was learned by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, at the behest of the Maccabee Sport Club of Brooklyn, one of the correspondents in America of the seat of the Makkabi Veltverbund movement in Berlin. Upon the arrival in America soon of Dr. Flink, a member of the Praesidium of the Maccabee movement in Europe, a conference is expected to be called to discuss plans for the extension of the movement in the United States. Among those who are expected to attend this conference are: Dr. Israel S. Chipkin, educational director of the Jewish Education Association; James Waterman Wise, leader of the Avukah; I. Hirschler, prominent official of the Hakoah Athletic Club; Louis Minsky, Edmund Schrieber and Lewis Lambert of the Maccabee Sport Club.

This will be the first serious attempt to organize for sport and cultural activities the many youth clubs and organizations in the United States. The headquarters of the European movement in Berlin are acutely interested in establishing a similar movement in the States, as evidenced by the mass of correspondence exchanged with the Maccabee Sport Club in Brooklyn.

The Makkabi Veltverbund is an international Jewish youth movement that lays emphasis on sport activities for building a sturdy race of Jews. Its headquarters are in Berlin but its individual affiliations, the numerous Makkabi and Hakoah sport clubs and organizations are located in practically all the countries of Europe. In Palestine there is a large and important Maccabee organization that is the main athletic association of the Jewish National Homeland.