TuS Bar Kochba, is a German association football club based in Nürnberg, Bavaria. It was established in 1913 as a social-sport club for the Jewish community in Nürnberg.
The club only fields a side in the senior A-league of the Bavarian Football Association, a competition made up of older players.2008 Table of the Senioren A Kreisliga Nürnberg – Fürth Fussball.de, accessed: 11 June 2008
History TuS Bar Kochba was founded in 1913 as the "Jewish Gymnastics and Sports Club Nuremberg". It was named after Simon bar Kokhba, a Jewish rebel. In 1939, the Nazi authorities dissolved the association. It was refounded in 1966 by and Paul Baruch. It is no longer exclusively Jewish.
A Berlin chapter, the Bar Kochba Berlin, was also formed.
See also Football in Germany List of football clubs in Germany
References
External links Official Site Bar Kochba Blätter, digitized editions of the organization's newsletter 1927–1929, at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York