Maccabi Hatzair, also known as Young Maccabi or the Maccabi youth movement (, HaMaccabi HaTza'ir), is a Zionist youth movement established during the international convention of the Maccabi World Union in Prague, Czech Republic in 1929. As the larger Maccabi movement is involved with promoting physical activity and sports among the Jewish people, the Maccabi youth movement was designated to focus on the informal education of the young generation, in light of the vision of Max Nordau and the idea of "Muscular Judaism".
History Maccabi Hatzair originally began as a sports organization under the central umbrella organization HeHalutz which coordinated training centres of young Jewish "pioneers" to prepare for life in Palestine in the 1920s. Maccabi Hatzair was established independently in 1932.
References
External links Maccabi youth movement official website Maccabi World Union Corb, Noam, “An island of Jewish autonomous life”: Paul Rosner's Diary and the Story of the Young Maccabi Movement in Germany, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 38, Issue 1, Spring 2024, Pages 81–101