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Jews, sports, and the rites of citizenship / edited by Jack Kugelmass.
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Sports--History.
- Jews.
- Jewish athletes--History.
- Jewish athletes.
- History.
- Jews--Sports.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 232 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- To many, an association between Jews and sports seems almost oxymoronic-yet Jews have been prominent in boxing, basketball, and fencing, and some would argue that hurler Sandy Koufax is America's greatest athlete ever. In Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, Jack Kugelmass shows that sports-significant in constructing nations and in determining their degree of exclusivity-also figures prominently in the Jewish imaginary. This interdisciplinary collection brings together the perspectives of anthropologists and historians to provide both methodological and regional comparative frameworks for exploring the meaning of sports for a minority population.
- Contents:
- Why sports? / Jack Kugelmass
- "How fiercely that gentile rides!" : Jews, horses and equestrian style / John Hoberman
- Unathletic department / Stephen J. Whitfield
- National regeneration in the ghetto : the Jewish Turnbewegung in Galicia / Joshua Shanes
- Zionism, politics, hedonism : sports in interwar Tel- Aviv / Anat Helman
- Jewish workers' sports movements in interwar Poland : Shtern and Morgnshtern in comparative perspective / Jack Jacobs
- Sabbath sport on the shores of Tripoli : muscles and memory among the Jews of Libya / Harvey E. Goldberg
- On matching unmatchables : soccer games between Jews and Muslims in Casablanca / André Levy
- Arab soccer in a Jewish state / Tamir Sorek
- The shame of the city : CCNY basketball, 1950-51 / Edward Shapiro
- The American Orthodox athlete : from contradiction in terms to institutional standard-bearer / Jeffrey S. Gurock.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252030826
- 9780252030826
- 025207324X
- 9780252073243
- OCLC:
- 62805036
- Publisher Number:
- 9780252030826
- 9780252073243
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