European Maccabi Games

Agnes Keleti performs a split in front of Hungarian young gymnasts Budapest on January 16, 2016. (Peter Kohalmi/AFP/Getty Images)

Gymnast Agnes Keleti survived the Holocaust to win 10 Olympic medals. At 98, she’s as feisty as ever.

The most decorated female Jewish Olympian of all time, later Israel’s national coach, says she “drove herself hard.”

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 6, 2019 5:56 pm

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Peter Hajdú running from Prague to Budapest for the Maccabi Europe Games on July 26, 2019. (Courtesy of EMG Hungary)

Jewish athletes competing in Hungary honor 1st Jewish Olympic champion

A new commemorative headstone will be unveiled at the grave in Hungary of Alfred Hajós, who won two Olympic swimming events in 1896 at the first modern Olympics.

July 29, 2019 1:50 pm

Portraits of strength and hope at the Maccabi Games

Ten photographs capture Jewish athletes from around the world ahead of their celebratory march into the Waldbuhne amphitheater built by Hitler for the 1936 Olympics.

August 4, 2015 6:26 pm

Shabbat meal at European Maccabi Games sets Guinness record

August 4, 2015 2:13 pm

Mural on remnants of Berlin Wall hit with anti-Semitic graffiti

August 3, 2015 6:56 am

At Berlin’s European Maccabi Games, the past is ever-present

By Hillel Kuttler July 30, 2015 1:06 pm

In Berlin, giving wronged Olympians their glory

By Hillel Kuttler April 14, 2014 10:07 am

At Maccabi Games in Vienna, symbolism — and the opposite sex

By Ruth Ellen Gruber July 11, 2011 7:28 pm

For native Austrians, a symbolic swim ‘to show the Nazis’

By Ruth Ellen Gruber July 11, 2011 6:59 pm

European Maccabi Games open in Vienna

By Ruth Ellen Gruber July 7, 2011 12:06 pm

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