Carl Janke’s Turnverein Halls and Bar Kochba Berlin
This is the day after Thanksgiving and Hamas has released Thai prisoners who survived the massive bombing by Israel, that became a nation thanks to members of the Jewish Turnverein sports clubs, that mimicked the Turnverein my great grandfather, Carl Janke, established in San Francisco, and Redwood City where his remains ended up after they were dug up in Belmont in the middle of the night – and put in a grave with two other relatives. A city structure was built on their – next to the last final resting place. Civic Justice was done? They might be moved – again!
The most famous ruined city in the world, was San Francisco. Carl rebuilt a Turnverein Hall that was destroyed in the earthquake. Dr. William Stuttmeister, who was married at Ralston Hall in Belmont, lost his dentist office located a couple of blocks from San Francisco City Hall. Williams granddaughter, Melba Broderick, married Victor Hugo Presco a famous gambler in the Barbary Coast. When he died 5,000 Friscians came to his funeral, including the mayor.
The biggest News Story for the last month, has been….ANTISEMITISM! As a newspaperman, I am amazed to see how other news people struggle – and famous folks – who are getting axed! When I was fourteen I gave up my neo-Nazi ways. One of my best friends was Jewish, his parents fled Russia. However, my brother, Mark Presco continued his evil ways. When he was fifteen he cut-out a Nazi man with swastika, and hung it over his bed. When he was critical of my Blogspot posts, I challenged him to be honest – and blog about what is in his heart. In his amazing Manifesto, he changes his mind about the Jews, because they are into SUCCESS, while black people, and women as a whole – are parasites! He labeled me a “parasite” and did much to undermine my writing ambitions, the foremost, to investigate our REAL family history, that my father knew some of. One of his secretaries called him….
VIC THE NAZI
Three days ago while watching Jews on the news talk about getting the bodies of thier loved ones back, I did an inventory of what Mark Presco did to me because of his need to be vastly superior to me. He did not tell me our father was dead, and, our mother was dying. He did not tell me our sister, Vicky was dead. He did not tell me he met my daughter at the Rosamond gallery, before I was told she existed. Sixteen year old Heather Hanson was used to try get me in the rival biography of my famous sister, Christine Rosamond Benton – who is demonized, along with me and our mother. Mark was fond of Drew Benton, and her father, Garth Benton, who is kin to Jessie Benton, the wife of John Fremont. I am looking to see if Jerome and Clotilde met Jessie, whose father was Senator Thomas Hart Benton.
Victor Presco suspected he was part Jewish via Gregory Roth. Both Rosemary assigned roles to their children – as a form of therapy. I was ‘The Family Jew’ as long as I could remember. The last time I had Thanksgiving with a family member was when I was fifteen. I cooked for my family at age of twelve to sixteen. Here is a video I made of the dinner I cooked. I injured my right forefinger taking my chicken out of the oven. I have developed arthritis in my other forefinger. I use two fingers to type. Will I be able to blog? Quit your whining – Mr. Designated Jew Man. Real Jews are being held captive in hell, and will suffer from PTSD the rest of their lives. How many have lost limbs? Quit your whining – PARASITE. You are not worthy enough to complain. Only Superior People can – whine!
“White men, more than any race, including white women, are highly oriented toward individualism.”
Having admired saluting Nazis, this question begs to asked….Do White Anti-Semitic Racists see their group events as the perfect opportunity to express their – Induvial Selves? What are we really looking at here? Where exist the ‘proportionality’ in bombing Gaza to rubble? I was the Night Suppository for my brothers hidden low self-esteem. I use “was” because he might be dead. I have not heard the truth on this matter……because I am not worthy to know if Mark Presco – Carl Janke’s other great grandson – is dead. Only he can choose who is worthy of this sacred white knowledge.
Hitler went after the Turnverein sports clubs, and took what he needed to satiate his Invincible Superman Race. The truth is – humans feel immortal in crowds of like-minded people. Here is a photo of Mark and I. As an artist and poet, I refuse to be a part – of his Crowd! I will pay for this, look of disgust. He disowned me when I refused to sign a NA that would have forbid me to write about members of – his family!
“But each white man is expected to create his own wealth.“
The key words here are “each white man”. If you are not white, Mark is not interested in what kind of status seeking you are involved in because you are not automatically in his league. . The use of “wealth” is the final key to what makes this kind of sick being work. When I was seventeen, and he eighteen, we were living with our mother who raised four children by herself. In 1963 there was news about some schools ending the pledge of allegiance in homeroom. I had just put the food I cooked on our T.V. trays. My brother played on the football team and carried a slide rule in his pocket as status symbol.
“I quit standing when they do the salute and pledge because it goes against my ambition to be an artist and a Beatnik!”
Mark deftly put his tray a side – rushed me – and flung my plate of food on the floor!
“No one makes money off art. You are a parasite on society – and your family!”
I flung my tray aside, and another one of our famous fist fights – was on!”
Not once did this wealthy man invite any member of his family to Thanksgiving at his house, lest he feel we are making a SUCKER out of him. He never took his mother to dinner. Let us not forget that Putin, the billionaire, is bombing Ukraine cities into rubble, because he ruled Ukrainians are inferior to Russians, and, do not have…..the right to exist! My brother believed I had no right to exist.
White men, more than any race, including white women, are highly oriented toward individualism. This is why individual rights and freedoms, and democracies are more prevalent and successful in white cultures. But what makes white cultures work is individual responsibility. Every white man is expected to provide for himself and his family and can expect little help from any other white men. Those who cannot do this have no status in the white community. Oh sure, we work together to build roads and cities and the proverbial barn raisings that are clearly too big for one man to handle. But each white man is expected to create his own wealth.
The Problem With The Women’s Movement
The Woman’s Movement is based on two entirely false premises. The first is that “Women have been oppressed and sexually exploited by Men”. This is just the opposite of what is really true. Women enjoy a privileged position in this society and have been making a living sexually exploiting Men for the last five million years. The second is that “Women want sexual equality”. This is the last thing Women want. It should be clear to even the most casual observer that Women have no intention of giving up a single privilege or prerogative or being Female, nor have they. All traditional Female privileges and prerogatives are intact and Women have no intention of giving them up no matter how much they screech about sexual equality out of the other side of Their face. The Women’s Movement has degenerated into a group of spoiled rotten Females demanding to be even more spoiled rotten than they already are.
I do not know if my older brother, Mark Presco, is alive or dead. He did not call me up and tell me Vicki Presco was dying, and was dead. Mark knew nothing about our family history, yet, if he contacted the Belmont Historical Society – they would have thrown open the Gold Gates to Belmont, and welcomed home their Parodical Son. I am positive I was EXAMINED – screened by the BHS to see if I had the right stuff, was, like them in many ways – and my politics matched! To their horror, they say I was their collective opposite. They delayed posting my history – while they figured out what to do. This constitutes a conspiracy to deprive of my Civil Liberties. Royal Rosamond Press is a registered newspaper in Lane County. They knew this.
With the death of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I fall back to my kin, Jessie Benton-Fremont, as the co-founder of Bohemianism in the Bay Area. Eight years ago I read an article about Evangelicals buying the book ‘Fountainhead – by the ton! This book is placed near their Bible. Why? Prosperity Gospel is bringing them in the Big Tent. If you follow King Jesus – he will make you very rich. Mark is a millionaire who told me he does not pay taxes because he does not want “N….Parasites” to get his money. If he is dead, he has found a way to leave his money to our kin – without any of his enemies knowing. Evanelicals believed that Trump was going to cut their taxes. An FBI report says the majority of Insurrectionists were about forty, and were businessmen – and not neo-Nazis.
During the French occupation of Moscow the 1812 Fire of Moscow persisted from 14 to 18 September 1812 and all but destroyed the city. The Russian troops and most of the remaining residents had abandoned Moscow on 14 September 1812 just ahead of French Emperor Napoleon‘s troops entering the city after the Battle of Borodino.[1][2][3] The Moscow military governor, Count Fyodor Rostopchin, has often been considered responsible for organising the destruction of the sacred former capital to weaken the French army in the scorched city even more
Jérôme, the youngest sibling of Napoleon, became the first Bonaparte to step foot in America, in 1803, the same year his brother nearly doubled the size of the United States by authorizing the Louisiana Purchase. At a party in Baltimore shortly after his arrival, Jérôme danced with Betsy Patterson, the daughter of a prosperous local merchant. Sparks apparently flew when his naval uniform hooked onto her gown, and they wed that December, much to the chagrin of Napoleon, who annulled the marriage and refused to let a pregnant Betsy disembark when the couple sailed back to Europe in 1805.
It is 8:33 A.M. May 27, 2023 – and I am still in shock having discovered my grandparents are buried in the same grave! I saw TWO flags put on one gravestone. That was a half hour ago. THEN – I see another flag! There are three of my ancestors buried in the same grave! WHY? Did the caretakers conclude this was a very poor family? William Stuttmeister knew they were Belmont before he died. At great expense to himself, he moved the Jankes to Colma after they were evicted from the Odd Fellow cemetery – at great expense! This was a wealthy pioneer family whose graves keep being defiled! They were moved to the Union cemetery i 1972?
I found Carl and Dorothea (also and Doretta) are buried at the Union Cemetary in Redwood City.
Carl_August_Janke Names Listed on the Marker: Janke, Carl August Janke, Dorette Catherine Janke, Mutter Heinrich Inscription: — From the 1937 headstone survey — Carl August Janke, born in Dresden, Germany Oct. 1806, died Belmont, Calif. Sept. 2, 1881 Dorette Catherine, wife of Carl August Janke, born in Hamburg, Germany, July 21, 1813, died in Belmont, California, Feb 16, 1877 Mutter Heinrich, mother of Dorette Catherine Janke, born in Island of Heligoland, Germany, 1781 died in Belmont, California 1876 NOTE: In 1937 the Daughters of the American Revolution recorded all the headstones.
As early as the 19th century, Jewish sports clubs were founded in Eastern and Central Europe. The first club was the Israelite Gymnastic Association Constantinople (German: Israelitischer Turnverein Konstantinopel) founded in 1895 in Constantinople, Turkey by Jews of German and Austrian extraction who had been rejected from participating in other social sport clubs. Two years later, haGibor was formed in Philipople, Bulgaria and 1898 saw the founding of Bar Kochba Berlin along with Vivó és Athletikai Club in Budapest, Hungary.
Other clubs that followed were named after “Bar Kochba” or Hebrew names such as “Hakoah” or “Hagibor” that symbolized strength and heroism. One of the basic premises behind the founding of these clubs was Jewish Nationalism. The concept was that Jews were not only a religious entity, but also one based on a common historical and social background, having special cultural and psychological concepts that have been preserved to this day, resulting in a strong recognition of collective belonging. In 1906, the first Jewish gymnastics club was formed in Palestine. Clubs later would spring up in other cities. By 1912, all of them joined the Maccabi Federation of Israel. That same year, the first relations were established between them and their European counterparts, when a decision was taken at the Maccabi Conference in Berlin to begin group trips to Palestine.
Yesterday I found a book that says my great great grandfather, Carl Janke was a Forty-niner who built homes all over the Bay Area. This history was oppressed because Christians did not like the German Forty-Eighters who backed my kin, John Fremont, the co-founder of the Rebpilcian Party, and its first Presidential Candidate. Recording this history is the most important thing I can do.
Many white people did not like the Germans because they were for freeing the slaves.
John Presco
BELMONT PARK ! 1 ;. c*» •• TDK penue, who wish to HH apend a few boon plaanntly, are invited to ■”••visit BELMONT PARK, located In a BEAUTIFUL GROVE at tha entrance of Canon Diablo, about 25 miles from San Francisco, ona hour’s ride on the Ran Francisco and San JosS Railroad, and Tha Proprietor. MR. 0. JANKE, it a <lerman, also proprietor of Turn-Verein Hall, San Franeiaeo, baying had many yean experience in beautifying places of amassment, feels eonSdent that this PARE la more attractive than any other place in California, and will be completed on the Ist day of Uti hotel U built around a very Uri’e OAK TREE, near a fine itraam of water surrounded by large oakl and shrubbery, with winding ataira np and platforms in many of the trees. The ground is properly laid ont in order, with tables, sea’s, tie., aad nortaina abont SO seres: the dance hall is largeand well arranged; the bar well fnpplitd with eheiee liquors; anitea of rooms, and meal* at all hour* M uHie for dancing will be at this pla«* at all times when the Han Kranciseo and San Jocf Railroad Company run excurtinn train!. –,
Daily Alta California, Volume 16, Number 5253, 20 July 1864
Music, Taljk; and Dancing Mark Completion of Temporary Home
BIG ATTENDANCE
With music end speeches the ttmpo; rary San Franclseo Turn Verein If all, 853 Turk street, was formally dedicated Sunday night, and In the presence of a large aasembly of members the keys of the new building were presented by the president ofthe building committee to the’ first president- of the association. After the exercises had been, brought to a. close the -remainder of the evening was spent in j dancing. Cigars and refreshments were served and everything possible . wa.s done to make, the occasion one of enjoyment for all present. – No sooner had the earthquake and fire destroyed the – old hall than the members of the San Francisco Turn Verein j began to plan the erection of another building.; On. the Friday following, the earthquake a meeting was held.for that purpose and committees were appointed. to look after the work. The new building would have been completed some time ago but for the scarcity of lumber. • , “, ■”, ‘
The present building will serve all the purposes of the organisation until the new,’ expensive structure, work on which will be commenced almost immediately, is completed. .Then the’present hall will be used simply as a gymnasium. ..:;. :: /.; ;
The building committee having in charge the construction of the new hall consists of John Slmmen, ‘• president; William Plagemano and Hans V*ronl. The board of trustees consists of Fran* Acker, president; Paul Leonhardt. Hans VeronJ, psear Hooka and Charles Wolters.:’. V:” .’: ‘ ‘; ‘ : ‘ . .’ . . . ■ ‘7- :
The San Francisco Turn. Veraln. was organized in 1.853 and is the oldest association of its kind on .\the. Pacific Coast. Th» , main building, which Is soon : tQ b$ erected, will be 70×70 feet and will be three stories in height It will cost about?2o,ooo.
San Francisco Call, Volume 100, Number 75, 14 August 1906
History of the San Francisco Bay Region: History and Biography, Volume 2
These posts were taken down from the Belmont Historic Society by one or more alleged volunteers. Cynthia Karpa McCarthy takes all the blame in order to get me to rage at her via personal e-mail, and, or, she wants to be THEIR champion so she can write a new book employing my family who founded Belmont, and were German Turnverein. They read these posts- and winced! I was their worst nightmare – alas come home to roost. I believe Cynthia came across my blog, Royal Rosamond Press, in her studies. THEY conspired on how to take care of me – and remove my posts. No one extended his/her welcoming hand to a senior – who owns the same DNA Carl Janke & Sons own! My Rosamond Ancestors were Patriots in South Carolina, and ARE the Good ol Boys! They would not dream of treating anyone like a Carpetbagger – today!…
It was radical socialist Jews, who belonged to sports clubs, that founded the state of Israel, and not Rabbis or a Messiah. The only person giving the title ‘Messiah’ was Harry Truman, a Democrat. The group that gets most of the credit is the Israelitische Turnverein, a group of Jewish gymnasts who were expelled from the Berlin Turnverien. My Stuttmeiser, Janke kinfolk were members of the Tunrverein, and were radical Forty-Eighters who are also give credit for the founding of Israel. These Forty-Eighters made up John Fremont’s and Jessie Benton’s bodyguard. The Freemasons are here. Other clubs that followed were named after “Bar Kochba” who was seen as a Messiah until he failed to drive the Romans out of Judea. His name was changed to “Simon bar Kozeba” (Hebrew: בר כוזיבא, “Son of lies” or “Son of deception”).
Whne you add it all up, for some strange reason my kindred are right there at the center of the Zionist controversy that has overcome the Republican Party, all but destroying it. The Zionist Evangelicals – disguised as Patriots – have brought our Democracy to a halt. In order to keep the focus on them, budgets are not going to be passed. Millions will be hurt financially. These religious fanatics use our Federal Taxes like a secular tithe in order to spread their propaganda that backs the Hawks of Israel. The only thing that keeps them hidden in the wings, is they have failed to capture the White House. When they do, the Capitol building that houses the Senate and Congress, will be turned into the Evangelical Vatican. They do these things because they know their cosmology is not tenable, is based on delusions and lies. They are Decietful Parasites looking for a legitimate host. This is why I registered as a Republican two years ago.
Get out of the Republican Party founded by my kindred. Form you own party.
Jon the Nazarite
As early as the 19th century, Jewish sports clubs were founded in Eastern and Central Europe. The first club was the Israelite Gymnastic Association Constantinople (German: Israelitischer Turnverein Konstantinopel) founded in 1895 in Constantinople, Turkey by Jews of German and Austrian extraction who had been rejected from participating in other social sport clubs. Two years later, haGibor was formed in Philipople, Bulgaria and 1898 saw the founding of Bar Kochba Berlin along with Vivó és Athletikai Club in Budapest, Hungary. Other clubs that followed were named after “Bar Kochba” or Hebrew names such as “Hakoah” or “Hagibor” that symbolized strength and heroism. One of the basic premises behind the founding of these clubs was Jewish Nationalism. The concept was that Jews were not only a religious entity, but also one based on a common historical and social background, having special cultural and psychological concepts that have been preserved to this day, resulting in a strong recognition of collective belonging. In 1906, the first Jewish gymnastics club was formed in Palestine. Clubs later would spring up in other cities. By 1912, all of them joined the Maccabi Federation of Israel. That same year, the first relations were established between them and their European counterparts, when a decision was taken at the Maccabi Conference in Berlin to begin group trips to Palestine.
Simon bar Kokhba (Aramaic: שמעון בר כוכבא, also transliterated as Bar Kochba) was the Jewish leader of what is known as the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE, establishing an independent Jewish state of Israel which he ruled for three years as Nasi (“Ruler”). His state was conquered by the Romans in 135 following a two-year war. Documents discovered in the modern era[1] give us his original name, Simon ben Kosiba, (Hebrew: שמעון בן כוסבא) he was given the surname Bar Kokhba, (Aramaic for “Son of a Star”, referring to the Star Prophecy of Numbers 24:17, “A star has shot off Jacob”) by his contemporary, the Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva. After the failure of the revolt, the rabbinical writers referred to bar Kokhba as “Simon bar Kozeba” (Hebrew: בר כוזיבא, “Son of lies” or “Son of deception”).
Despite the devastation wrought by the Romans during the First Jewish-Roman War (66–73 CE), which left the population and countryside in ruins, a series of laws passed by Roman Emperors provided the incentive for the second rebellion. The last straw was a series of laws enacted by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, including an attempt to prevent Jews from living in Jerusalem; a new Roman city, Aelia Capitolina, was to be built in its place. The second Jewish rebellion took place 60 years after the first and re-established an independent state lasting three years. For many Jews of the time, this turn of events was heralded as the long hoped for Messianic Age. The excitement was short-lived, however; after a brief span of glory, the revolt was eventually crushed by the Roman legions.
A complete Roman legion with auxiliaries was annihilated. The new state knew only one year of peace. The Romans committed no fewer than twelve legions, amounting to one third to one half of the entire Roman army, to reconquer this now independent state. Being outnumbered and taking heavy casualties, the Romans refused to engage in an open battle and instead adopted a scorched earth policy which reduced and demoralized the Judean populace, slowly grinding away at the will of the Judeans to sustain the war.
The first all Jewish gymnastic club was formed in 1895 known as the Israelitische Turnverein Konstantinopel (Israelite Gymnastic Association Constantinople), it was formed by German and Austrian Jews residing in Constantinople (Istanbul – Kushta) who were unwelcome at the German gymnastic societies with their “Aryan – only” membership proclivities.
Modeling themselves on the very German organization which had barred them, they adopted the slogan of the vigorous, devout, cheerful and free.
Another milestone in the formation of the Jewish sport movement occurred at a meeting of the permanent committee of the Second Zionist Congress held in Basel in 1898. Dr. Max Nordau made an impassioned plea for a Muscular Judaism noting that “We Jews possess an exceptional gift for physical activity. It may by that this will appear paradoxical since we have been accustomed for generations to view ourselves in the mirror which our enemies have held up to so, and to discover any number of physical blemishes. It is true that our muscles have been weakened and that our attitudes and postures are not always satisfactory… but when Jews do engage in sport their defects vanish, their postures improve, their muscles become strong and their general health gets better”. Similarly, Herzl stressed that the derisive term coined by the anti-Semites, Judenjungen (akin to “Jewboy”), should be reversed in both form and content, and give way to the meritorious appellation Junge Juden (Young Jew).
Following Herzl’s and Nordau’s call, many clubs were quickly organized. This nascent movement received an immeasurable boost with the appearance in 1900 of the first periodical dedicated entirely to Jewish sport, Die Juedische Turanzeitung, which was the official publication of the pre-eminent Jewish gymnastic club, Juedische Turnverein Bar Kochba – Berlin.
Bolstered by the newspaper’s daring proclamation, the by now numerous Jewish gymnastic clubs banded together in 1903 under the umbrella organization of Die Juedische Turnerschaft (Jewish Gymnastic Association) with headquarters in Berlin. The constitution of Die Juedische Turnerschaft permitted membership to every Jewish gymnastic club that accepted that “the aim of the society is to foster gymnastics as a medium to build up physical fitness as part of the Jewish National Idea.”
On the fourth of May [1856] the regular annual festival of the Turnverein Association of San Francisco took place, with all the usual accompaniments of music, dancing, gymnastics, oratory, eating and drinking. The festival, which was inaugurated by a procession of the Society to welcome their brother Turners from the interior, lasted three days, and everybody passed off in the most orderly and agreeable manner. The gymnastic performances were excellent, and formed a large portion of the ceremonies.
The celebration of the “May festival,” although in the United States it is conducted under the control of the Turnverein Association, is a national festival in which all the Germans partake, and which is celebrated throughout all Germany. The origin of the Turner Association, which has now become so large and so important a one among our German citizens, was a political one. Germany is divided into thirty-six different States, with as many Governments of a despotic nature, and many of them hostile to each other.
Young Germany, deeply imbued with the spirit of freedom, has been for a long time anxious to throw off these yokes, and unite under one liberal, consolidated Government; but the rulers, in order to prevent this, have forbidden all assemblies or associations for political purposes, under heavy penalties. In order to avoid this prohibition an enthusiastic republican named Jahn made the meeting and associations for gymnastic exercises the occasion for the spread of democratic doctrines, and the Turnverein (or gymnastic association,) soon spread and grew into importance wherever Germans are found. This association now exists in, and exercises a great influence over the whole German population.
There is no secrecy about the association, neither is there any direct connection between the different associations, although a Turner of any one city considers himself, to all intents and purposes, a member of the Turnverein of any other city.
Here is a fantastic article about my great grandfather, Carl Janke, rebuilding the Turn Verein Hall that was destroyed in the infamous 1906 Earthquake! Wow! This makes all members of my family SURVIVORS of one of the greatest Historic Events – IN HISTORY!!!!
Too bad I can’t post it on the Belmont Historical Society because I have been banned because I threatened all of the members that I would go to the Mayor of Belmont. Did they think I was going to get them in trouble – for not giving me a warm greeting, and inviting me to MC events at the next Oktoberfest! I’m gong to write the German Consulate and tell them how my plan to esteem the German People of the Bay Area was thwarted. I mean, other races from other nations are honored.
My mother’s favorite movie is Gone With The Wind, followed by ‘San Francisco. My father looked like Jimmy Stuart when young, and a bit like Clark. Vic was born in San Francisco. After THREATENING to make a movie about Belmont, on the Mayor’s facebook, he took down all my posts, and banned me! I was still being a BAD BOY, a roguish rebel who does not want to go along with the program. My history must be taken from me, and I sent to Siberia-Mont.
Rosemary Rosamond’s favorite movie of all time, is ‘Withering Heights’. She died knowing nothing of our roots in Belmont, where Carl – was just like Clark! She did not know we are kin to Robert-E. Lee. With Lawrence Ferlinghetti out of the way – I’m the King of San Francisco. See?
This morning I awoke, and felt THEM combing through this blog – to really get something on me. They gleefully found some real dirt – and have taken it to The Mayor!
“We found some good shit, your honor. Mr. Presco has an inflamed ego – out the here!’
“Who does he think he is – GOD!”
“Exactly! He’s been playing GOD with us. But, he’s a scallywag and a cad!”
Below is a photo of Janke’s descendants at General Vallejo’s house. Then at the Janke crypt. This family built, and helped rebuild – SAN FRANCISCO! Hit it boys!
Wait a minute! Hold your horses! I think ‘Sweet Home Belabama’ should be a musical!
I do not know if my older brother, Mark Presco, is alive or dead. He did not call me up and tell me Vicki Presco was dying, and was dead. Mark knew nothing about our family history, yet, if he contacted the Belmont Historical Society – they would have thrown open the Gold Gates to Belmont, and welcomed home their Parodical Son. I am positive I was EXAMINED – screened by the BHS to see if I had the right stuff, was, like them in many ways – and my politics matched! To their horror, they say I was their collective opposite. They delayed posting my history – while they figured out what to do. This constitutes a conspiracy to deprive of my Civil Liberties. Royal Rosamond Press is a registered newspaper in Lane County. They knew this.
With the death of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I fall back to my kin, Jessie Benton-Fremont, as the co-founder of Bohemianism in the Bay Area. Eight years ago I read an article about Evangelicals buying the book ‘Fountainhead – by the ton! This book is placed near their Bible. Why? Prosperity Gospel is bringing them in the Big Tent. If you follow King Jesus – he will make you very rich. Mark is a millionaire who told me he does not pay taxes because he does not want “N….Parasites” to get his money. If he is dead, he has found a way to leave his money to our kin – without any of his enemies knowing. Evanelicals believed that Trump was going to cut their taxes. An FBI report says the majority of Insurrectionists were about forty, and were businessmen – and not neo-Nazis.
Dr. Albert Speer (left), Hitler’s chief architect, presents his model of the German Pavilion, designed for the World’s Fair in Paris in 1937. Date: 1937
Trump is doing Hitler. Trump is doing Mark Presco who did not inform me our father was dead, and our mother was dying, because he ruled I was a parasite on society. Here is Mark labeling many American ‘parasites’ including women. Jessie Benton Fremont was a pioneer in the Woman’s Movement. Mark asked me to include parts of his blog in my biography about a world famous female artist that is know for her images of beautiful women. Trump prides himself on the beautiful women he has bonded with that obviously do not care about equality.
Mark Presco conspired with Vicki Presco, Stacey Pierrot, and Jacci Belford, to steal the creative legacy that Christine Rosamond Benton left her two daughters, Shannon Rosamond, and, Drew Benton. Drew is related to the artist Thomas Hart Benton, who is compared to Jack London. His grandfather was Senator Thomas Hart Benton, whose daughter, Jessie, married John Fremont, a co-founder of the Republican Party, and its first candidate for President of the United States. John also co-founded the Radical Democracy Party, and was its candidate for President, but he dropped out to keep the racist Democrats out of the White House. John was backed by radical Germans, Forty-Eighters, who complained about Lincoln’s tardiness in backing the Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendment.
THE MACCABI CLUB IN RUSCHUK AND CONSTANTINOPLE.
My grandfather, Moritz Abraham, and his brother, Haim Abraham, took an active part in the leadership of the Maccabi sports organization, first in Ruschuk, Bulgaria, then in Constantinople. In addition, Moritz’s future brother-in-law Israel Auerbach, who had previously taken part in the creation of Berlin’s Bar Kochba Jewish Sports Association, also belonged to the Constantinople Maccabi. Haim in particular seems to have taken a very active part in the sports association.
This page does not attempt to tell the story of Maccabi in Ruschuk (Ruse) or in Constantinople, as this would by far exceed the scope of this family project. My goal instead has been to collect information I’ve been able to find about the involvement of my grandfather Moritz Abraham and his brother Haim Abraham with Maccabi, as I believe this adds valuable insights about their lives. I am also including the work Israel and Elias Auerbach contributed to Maccabi in Constantinople and Haifa, as both families were closely related.
Ruschuk, Bulgaria
The participation of Haim (or “Heinrich” as he called himself then) with the early days of Maccabi in Ruschuk is documented in various articles and in two books, “Maccabi in the Balkan States” by David Rimon (1945) and “Maccabi Bulgaria” (1973).
In “Maccabi Bulgaria”, p44, Meir Melamed writes:
“On February 10th 1902 a group of youngsters founded the Maccabi Association in Ruse under the name “Jewish Association for Gymnastics and Music – Maccabi”. In 1905, after a fierce internal struggle, the Association defined itself as a Zionist organization.”
“Thanks to the active help of the Jewish community, which wholeheartedly supported the first organisation of its youths, thanks to the effective support of the World Zionist Organisation, to the enthusiasm of the youths’ management and to the talent of its leader, Heinrich Abraham*, Maccabi expanded its ranks from 42 to 100 members within a year. During this year, the Association held ten performances, designed its members’ uniforms and inaugurated its flag.”
*Note: Haim called himself “Heinrich” in Ruschuk after his return from Germany.
In December 1903, several Maccabi clubs from Bulgaria met in Sofia for their first national conference and Haim attended as the representant for the Ruschuk club.
Meir Melamed (“Maccabi Bulgaria”, p44):
[…] “In 1903, at the initiative of the Maccabi Association of Ruse, the first conference of the gymnastics associations in Bulgaria was organized in the city. […] Ruse became a center of guidance and influence for all the young Maccabi associations which began to emerge in Bulgaria one after another.”
David Rimon (HaMaccabi Be’Artzot HaBalkan):
“On December 25, 1903, the first national conference was held in Sofia, attended by Maccabi groups from Ruse, Plovdiv, Pazardzhik and Sofia. The Zionist Organization in Bulgaria sent a special representative to this conference to congratulate the Maccabi convention and to participate in it on its behalf.”
“The conference was limited to preparing the ground for the founding of the association, and elected a central committee whose task was to determine the regulations of the national association, its name, etc. The following were elected to the committee: Leon Cohen (President), Yaakov Tager, Emanuel Nasimoff, Alexander Radbil (today the four of them are in Tel Aviv) and Rahamim Baruch. The management of the technical work was handed over to the branch in Ruse under the presidency of Haim Avraham (today in Haifa).”
The first national conference of Maccabi associations in Bulgaria (December 25-27, 1903). Seated from right to left: Haim Abraham, Shabbat Borochov, David Kalev, Aharon Manoach. Standing: Rachamim Borochov, Molcho, Emanuel Nissimoff, Adv. Moshaiv, Aharon Danon.
(Photo sources: “Maccabi Bulgaria”, also in “HaMaccabi Be’Artzot HaBalkan” with caption above.)
The participation of my grandfather is more sparsely documented, suggesting his involvement was much more limited. David Rimon briefly mentions his name, without detailing his role, aside from being a member of the association.
Constantinople
Postcard commemorating the 10th anniversary of the “Israelitischer Turnverein Konstantinopel” (Israel Gymnastic Club), 1895/1905
(Collection Daniel Abraham)
This commemorative card, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the “Israelitischer Turnverein Konstantinopel” was part of my grandfather’s collection. It’s not clear what was Moritz’s connection with this event since he left no written documentation. He may have participated to the anniversary in Constantinople as part of his acitivity in the Ruschuk Maccabi club.
The Maccabi Sports Organization of Constantinople had evolved from the “Israelitischer Turnverein Konstantinopel” (“Israelite Gymnastic Association of Constantinople”). It was the first Jewish sports organization in Eastern and Central Europe and was founded in 1895 in Constantinople by Jews of German and Austrian extraction who had been rejected from participating in other social sport clubs.
Upon their arrival in Constantinople in the Summer of 1908, Moritz and Haim joined the leadership of the Constantinople Maccabi organization.
In “HaMaccabi Be’Artzot HaBalkan” (The Maccabi in Balkan States), p96, David Rimon wrote:
“A few weeks after the Young Turk Revolution [July 1908], the brothers Haim Abraham and Moritz Abraham, members of Maccabi Ruschuk in Bulgaria, came to Constantinople. The brothers immediately went to work and devoted much of their time and energy to the development of the association.”
“At the same time, Dr Israel Auerbach, the representative in Turkey of the German Jewish “Ezra” society [“Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden”] and a reporter of the official Zionist weekly “Die Welt” also arrived in Constantinople. Dr Auerbach, who prior to his arrival in Constantinople had been the president of “Bar Kochba” in Berlin (Jüdischer Turnverein Bar Kochba Berlin – the first Jewish gymnastics club) and the president of the Association of Jewish Gymnastics Societies in Germany, as well as the editor of the journal “Jüdische Turnzeitung”, joined the management of the Maccabi association in Constantinople and contributed his talent and extensive experience in both the organisational and technical fields”.
[…] “Under the influence of a few Zionists who were in Constantinople at that time, the Jews launched an internal propaganda for nationalism and Zionism. Among these Zionist influencers were Dr. David Marcus, rabbi of the Ashkenazi community, and Dr. Victor Jacobson, a representative of the Zionist General Council in Constantinople and director of the Anglo-Levantine Bank. […] A few months after the [July 1908 Young Turk] Revolution, Ze’ev Jabotinsky came to Constantinople. The influence of these Zionist leaders led by Jabotinsky, as well as the two Maccabis who came from Bulgaria [Haim (“Heinrich”) and Moritz Abraham], caused a complete change in the character of the “Israeli Gymnastics Association”, which in September 1908 already enacted a “national” [read “Zionist”] constitution.”
[…] The same month, the Israelite Gymnastics Association held a gymnastics celebration in honor of Dr. Israel Auerbach, and in the same year (1908) a large gymnastics celebration was held in which Jamal Pasha, son-in-law of Sheikh al-Islam and the Minister of State, participated.
David Rimon, p100:
“Most of the members in the suburbs [of Constantinople] were Sephardim, while in the city center one bloc of the two communities was formed, which led to the creation of a joint Maccabi committee of the Sephardim and Ashkenazim, consisting of HH: Moritz Abramovich – chairman, Dr. Israel Auerbach, Haim Avraham and more.”
Moritz Abraham with Maccabi members, Constantinople (lying on the left).
Sitting on pommel horse in the center is Moritz Abramovitz, Chairman of the association.
This photo is on a postcard addressed to “Herr Abraham, Isr. Turnverein, Constantinople” and was mailed on July 24, 1908 from Munich. This would indicate that Moritz may have been in Constantinople, and had already joined the sports club before the Young Turk Revolution, which had started in July and ended on July 24, when Sultan Abdul Hamid II capitulated and reinstated the country’s constitution.
Roman Sinkovsky (“Jewish German gymnastic system in Turkey until 1918”):
In 1908 the Israelitischer Turnverein changed its name to the national-Jewish “Maccabi”. This renaming act followed naturally after the general assembly on May 25th 1908 when the club announced, for the very first time publicly, its national-Jewish conviction. This proposal originated by H. Abraham who declared that he was willing to hold his position (vice chairman) only in a national-Jewish turnverein.
According to the recollections of Sarah Cohen Eldar, Haim also “invented” Hebrew terms for gymnastics’ commands.
Sinkovsky:
Starting in May 1910 the gymnastic units were given in Hebrew and the club started organizing obligatory lessons of Hebrew for the members. The goal was the support of the national-Jewish idea and the prevention of the lingual and gymnastic-technical misunderstandings. The Constantinople Maccabi was the first national-Jewish club to use Hebrew.
Several Hebrew speaking men of Constantinople participated in creating the gymnastic terminology which was then sent to Jaffa (Palestine) for an appraisal.
The Jewish turners celebrated the commemoration of the Maccabbees with an annual gymnastic festival. On December 31st 1910, the program was started with the Ottoman anthem followed by the Zionist anthem (“Hatikvah”). Many Turkish officials and authorities were present, and some even gave speeches in one of the three official languages of the Maccabi – Turkish, Hebrew and French.
Maccabi Sports Organization in Constantinople In the middle: Haim Abraham (sitting with arms crossed and dark suit), Moshe Abrahamovitz, Albert Zipper, Bornstein. Date unknown.
Maccabi organized many excursions, trips, sports celebrations and cultural events.
In the Spring of 1910, the Maccabi association travelled by ship to Kuzguncuk, a neighborhood of Constantinople on the Asian side of the Bosphorus and gave a presentation of gymnastics in front of a crowd. Also present were high-ranking army officers. At the end of their exhibition, they marched and sang the “Hatikva”.
David Rimon, p100-101:
“H. Chaim Avraham, one of the leaders of the Maccabi in Constantinople and its living spirit, took the stage and explained to the crowded audience the goals of the Maccabi and the benefits of physical education, and at the end of his remarks he congratulated the new branch of Maccabi that was founded in this suburb on the same day.”
“His speech made a great impression on those gathered who enthusiastically cheered […]”
On July 17-19, 1910, the 4th Maccabi Congress took place in Varna, Bulgaria. The Constantinople club sent thirty or so members to participate, led by Haim Abraham and three other representatives. L’Aurore, a Jewish weekly from Constantinople, reported that:
“[…] it was pure elation when Mr. Haim Abraham spoke on behalf of our maccabists – first in Hebrew and then in Spanish [Ladino – DA]. He knew how to express such feelings that the applause erupted at the end of every one of his sentences.”
In September 1910, El Tiempo, the Ladino publication opposed to Zionism, wrote an article attacking the Maccabi organization because of its Zionist leanings, focusing in particular on a speach given by Haim Abraham. In response, the Maccabi organization initiated a lawsuit against that publication, as reported by L’Aurore.
In September 1913, Haim attended the 11th Zionist Congress in Vienna, during which 1,450 gymnasts participated in a mass display of Jewish Gymnasts.
At the sport event of all Maccabi organizations of Europe during the 11th Zionist Congress in Vienna, 1913.
A short note in l’Aurore dated June 17, 1910, displays the newly-elected members of the Pera section committee. Dr. Israel Auerbach, future brother-in-law of Moriz Abraham is assistant manager.
Another brief dispatch in l’Aurore, this one dated June 6, 1911, shows Haim elected as manager of the Pera section. Other names include A. Ziffer, J. Barzilai, M. Abramovitz, and Ezra Niego – all names that appear over the years in various leadership roles with the Maccabi association.
In the April 23, 1915 issue of l’Aurore, a pro-Zionist Jewish weekly published in Constantinople, a short notice about the yearly Maccabi assembly mentioned an “M. Abraham”, I assume this being Moritz Abraham.
“M. Abraham” appears as one of three advisors, although it’s not clear what his responsibilities entailed. Interestingly, Haim is not listed, maybe indicating that he had stopped participating in the affairs of Maccabi by then.
Jewish Gymnastic Association – Maccabi Pera branch The yearly general assembly of the Pera branch of the Jewish Gymnastic Association Maccabi was held on Sunday April 18 in the premises of B’nai B’rith. […] The assembly then proceeded to the election of the new commitee which is made up of the following members: Manager: M. M.Abramowitz […] Advisor: A. Ziffer ” : M. Abraham
The last mention of Moritz in connection with the Maccabi association places his involvement in the early 1920’s, before the dissolution of Maccabi by the Turkish governement in 1923.
David Rimon, p106: “In the last years of the existence of the Maccabi, it was headed by Moritz Avraham.“
I can’t however confirm this statement as I don’t have any other corroborating evidence. Since a Moritz Avramovitch had previously led the group, it is not impossible that Rimon could have confused the two names.
The last mention of Haim in relationship to Maccabi appears in a speech given on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the association reproduced in the February 1925 issue of Hamenora, the monthly publication of B’nai B’rith, Oriental District XI. Haim’s name appears as one of four “valiant pioneers” of the organisation, although it’s not clear what his role was by then.
“[…] I do myself an honor to thank our valiant pioneers: MM. M. ABRAMOWITZ, HAYM AVRAHAM, ALBERT ZIFFER and JACQUES M. BARZILAI for the long years of labor devoted to our work. Your names and your memory are forever etched in letters of gold in the annals of the Maccabi.
According to David Rimon: “With the victory of Kamel Pasha in 1923, all national [meaning nationalist such as Zionist, etc.] associations, including the Maccabi associations throughout Turkey, were liquidated and banned.”
Photographs
Below are a few photos of Maccabi activities from my grandfather’s collection.
Maccabi Group excursion – Constantinople, 1916. “Ziffer, Zonnenschein, Abramowitz, Chaim Abraham, Adjoubel (? Adjanbel?), Habib, etc.” (Haim Abraham, with the beard, is standing to the far right.)
Jewish Sport Group excursion – Constantinople, 1916. Inscription in the back: “Herr Abramowitz, Ziffer, Chaim Abraham, Sonnenschein, Habib, Adjanbel (?).” Haim Abraham, with the beard, is second from the right in the middle row.
A copy of this photo also exists in the Maccabi archive, as “A group of gymnasts, including Avraham Zipper (center up), visiting the Jewish colony Mesila Hadasha in Istanbul”.
Maccabi Excursion, ca. 1914-1922
Maccabi Soccer Team, ca. 1914-1922
Maccabi Soccer Team, ca. 1914-1922
Maccabi Soccer Team, ca. 1914-1922
Jewish Scouts – Cospoli, ca. 1914-1922
While only a couple of these photos are dated, two articles in Hamenora, the publication of the B’nai B’rith lodge, describe when outdoors activities were first introduced in Maccabi, putting their dates between the onset of WW1 and the early 1920’s. The presence of men wearing fez, indicates that the soccer photos were taken before 1925, when the fez was banned by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
“[…] Until the Great War our work was limited to so-called indoor gymnastics – apparatus and group movements. […] Outdoor sport was gaining ground everywhere and imposing new guidelines on us.”
“Already, during the war, we made the attempt at scouting. Our numerous, well equipped, excellently trained ‘Drorim’ were, for years, our pride. […] we added […] the practice of outdoor sports, athletics in its most modern expression.”
“Our football section, already existing before the war, saw its ranks grow and the Maccabi selection managed to rank first in the Constantinopolitan tournament called “Sundays”, for the 1921-1922 season. “
Another article in the February 1925 issue of the same publication implies that soccer and scoutism both started after the beginning of WW1:
“The cataclysm of the World War was soon to paralyze this beautiful activity. […] Other technical branches were soon to be added to apparatus gymnastics: I mean the “Sénif Kadour Réguel” or Football as well as the Drorim or Scouts Section.
Haifa
In December 1912, Elias Auerbach, Israel’s brother, together with Herr Neumann*, a teacher of the Agudat Ezra school, founded the sports association “Maccabi Bat Galim”, now known as Maccabi Haifa.The founders believed in the ideological ideas of the Maccabi movement and wanted to establish a branch in Haifa. The club’s leading activities were swimming, football and basketball. (Source: Maccabihaifa.co.il) (*Note: another source mentions Elias Auerbach and Ernst Hermann)
The Maccabaean, Vol XXIII, N° 3. March 1913.
A brief mention of the founding of Haifa’s Maccabi appears in “Das Kulturerbe deutschsprachiger Juden: Eine Spurensuche in den Ursprungs-, Transit- und Emigrationsländern” (The cultural heritage of German-speaking Jews: A search for clues in the countries of origin, transit and emigration) (edited by Elke-Vera Kotowski):
“The Maccabi Association in Haifa is […] an example of the early transfer of the gymnastic and sporting tradition from
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