Hakoah Sport Clubs - List of Jews in Sports, Hakoah Vienna, Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan F.C., Sydney City Soccer Club, Melbourne Hakoah (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: List of Jews in sports, Hakoah Vienna, Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan F.C., Sydney City Soccer Club, Melbourne Hakoah, New York Hakoah, Hakoah Tel Aviv F.C., Hakoah Berlin, Brooklyn Hakoah, Club Nautico Hacoaj, Hakoah All-Stars, Jodisk Idraetsforening Hakoah, FC Hakoah, New York Hakoahs. Excerpt: Connection Timeout Hakoah Vienna (German: ) is an Austrian sports club. Prior to World War II, it produced several Olympic athletes and was notable for fielding an entirely Jewish association football team with players drawn from across Europe. Closed down by the Nazis in 1938 following the Anschluss, it re-formed in 1945, though its football team was disbanded in 1949. A pair of Austrian Zionists, cabaret librettist (Kabarettist) Fritz "Beda" Lohner and dentist Ignaz Herman Korner, founded the club in 1909. Influenced by Max Nordau's doctrine of "Muscular Judaism" (German: ), they named the club "Hakoah" (Hebrew: ), meaning "the strength" in Hebrew. In its first year, the club's athletes competed in fencing, football, field hockey, track & field, wrestling and swimming. Hakoah Vienna was one of the first football teams to market themselves globally by travelling frequently where they would attract thousands of Jewish fans to their matches against local teams in cities such as London and New York. Support for Hakoah spread around Europe rapidly as Jews as far as Russia and the United States avidly supported Hakoah Vienna who took advantage of such support by setting up very successful tours and friendlies. As the first "Jewish" team, Hakoah attracted the attention of prominent Jewish figures including author Franz Kafka. Hakoah finished second in the Austrian league in 1922. On the team's trip to London in 1923, they managed to defeat West Ham United by a score of 5-1, admittedly against a largely reserve team. Nevertheless, Hak..