Hasmonea Lwów was a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

-Jewish sports club based in the city of Lwów (now Lviv

Lviv

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, Ukraine

Ukraine

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). Created in 1908, it was the first sports club exclusively for Jewish members. It was named after the Hasmonean

Hasmonean

The Hasmonean dynasty , was the ruling dynasty of Judea and surrounding regions during classical antiquity. Between c. 140 and c. 116 BCE, the dynasty ruled semi-autonomously from the Seleucids in the region of Judea...

 royal dynasty. The full Polish name was Żydowski Klub Sportowy Hasmonea Lwów.

In the interbellum the Hasmonea was one of four Lwów-based clubs playing in the Polish First League

Polish First League

I Liga is the second level of the Polish association football league, below the Ekstraklasa and above the II Liga. Run by the Polish Football Association since its inception in 1948, all teams from 2002 onwards must have professional status and a licence, issued by the Association...

 and arguably the most popular Jewish football club in Poland. In 1928 it was ranked 13th in the league and dropped to the second league. The most popular football player primarily associated with the club was Zygmunt Steuermann

Zygmunt Steuermann

Zygmunt Steuermann was a Polish football player and one of the most renowned members of the Hasmonea Lwów Football Club. Born February 5, 1899 in Sambor, then in Austro-Hungarian Galicia, Steuermann was a member of a Polonized Jewish family. Already at the age of 12 he joined the local Korona Sambor...

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Hasmonea was also famous for its excellent table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 players. In 1933 they were team champions of Poland, and its top player, Alojzy Ehrlich

Alojzy Ehrlich

Alojzy "Alex" Ehrlich , also called "King of the Chiselers," was a Polish table tennis legend, widely regarded as one of the best players in Polish history of this sport, who three times won silver in the World Championships....

, was three times winner of silver medals in the World Championships (1936, 1937, 1939). Another of the championship players during those years was Leopold Weiss, one of the few members of the club who like Ehrlich also survived the Nazi occupation of Lwów.