Jews and the sporting life / edited by Ezra Mendelsohn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mendelsohn, Ezra.

Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.

Series:

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 23.

Studies in contemporary Jewry 0740-8625 ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish athletes.

Sports--Social aspects.

Sports.

Physical Description:

xiv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

At head of title: The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Symposium: Jews and the Sporting Life

Thoughts on the Jewish Body, Baseball, and the Problem of Integration / Sander L. Gilman 5

Jews and Sports in Poland before the Second World War / Diethelm Blecking 17

"Boxing for Everyone" : Jewish DPs, Sports, and Boxing / Gabriel N. Finder 36

The Jewish Bookmaker: Gambling, Legitimacy, and the American Political Economy / Michael Alexander 54

Pride and Priorities: American Jewry's Response to Hakoah Vienna's U.S. Tour of 1926 / Jeffrey S. Gurock 70

From Participant to Owner: The Role of Jews in Contemporary American Sports / Edward S. Shapiro 87

Sports in the Young State of Israel / Anat Helman 103

Why Did Beit Shean Let Betar Win? Latent Ethnic Solidarity and the Sports Ethic in Israel / Tamir Sorek 128

Dream and Disenchantment: Massimo Della Pergola and the Invention of the Italian Totocalcio / Sergio DellaPergola 141

Essays

Reflections from "Hutz La'aretz" : Responses of Reform Rabbis to Israeli Statehood / Matthew Silver 161

1953/1954: A Year in Yiddish Literature / Jan Schwarz 185

Review Essays

Denigrating Israel, Israeli Style / Aharon Klieman 202

Polish Antisemitism: A National Psychosis? / Daniel Blatman 213

Book Reviews (arranged by subject): Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide

The Jews Are Coming Back: The Return of the Jews to Their Countries of Origin after WWII / David Weinberg, David Bankier 229

My z Jedwabnego (We from Jedwabne) / Joanna B. Michlic, Anna Bikont 231

Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland / Daniel Blatman, Robert Blobaum 213

Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony / Susannah Heschel, Christopher R. Browning 235

Fear: Antisemitism in Poland after Auschwitz / Daniel Blatman, Jan T. Gross 213

Obliged by Memory: Literature, Religion, Ethics / Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen 237

The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day / Milton Shain, Walter Laqueur 239

Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present / Theodore R. Weeks, Joanna Beata Michlic 241

Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands / Daniel J. Schroeter, Robert Satloff 243

From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The "Jewish Question" in Poland, 1850-1914 / Daniel Blatman, Theodore R. Weeks 213

Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust / Emily Miller Budick, Gary Weissman 245

U genezy Jedwabnego: Zydzi na kresach pólnocno-wschodnich II Rzeczpospolitej, wrzesień 1939-lipiec 1941 (The genesis of Jedwabne: Jews and the southeastern borderlands of the second Polish republic, September 1939-July 1941) / Daniel Blatman, Andrzej Zbikowski 213

Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists / Ezra Mendelsohn, Samantha Baskind 249

My Yeshiva College: 75 Years of Memories / Lloyd P. Gartner, Menachem Butler, Zev Nagel 251

Portraying 'the Jew' in First World War Britain / Sharman Kadish, Alyson Pendlebury 252

Two Models of Jewish Philosophy: Justifying One's Practices / Shubert Spero, Daniel Rynhold 254

History and the Social Sciences

Commentary Magazine, 1949-59: 'A Journal of Significant Thought and Opinion,' / Gerald Sorin, Nathan Abrams 256

Jews and Gender in Liberation France / Phyllis Albert, Karen H. Adler 258

Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis / Rivka Yadlin, Bat Ye'or 262

Building a Diaspora: Russian Jews in Israel, Germany and the USA / Maria Yelenevskaya, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Michail Liubansky, Olaf Glockner, Paul Harris, Yael Israel, Willi Jasper, Julius Schoeps 266

Emancipation through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe / Mitchell B. Hart, Michael Brenner, Gideon Reuveni 270

The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 / Lloyd P. Gartner, Hasia R. Diner 272

Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945 / Donald L. Niewyk, Marion A. Kaplan 274

The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel Versus the American Jewish Establishment / Jerome A. Chanes, Fred A. Lazin 276

Molitva (Prayer) / Samuel Barnai, Alexander Paritsky 279

Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World / Todd M. Endelman, Karen Hunger Parshall, James Joseph Sylvester 283

American Judaism: A History / Lloyd P. Gartner, Jonathan D. Sarna 272

Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East

Hevrah vekhalkalah beyisrael: mabat histori ve'akhshavi (Society and economy in Israel: historical and contemporary perspectives) / Ronen Mandelkern, Avi Bareli, Daniel Gutwein, Tuvia Friling 285

Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy / Aharon Klieman, Shlomo Ben-Ami 202

The Boundaries of Modern Palestine, 1840-1947 / Aharon Klieman, Gideon Biger 202

Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America / Aharon Klieman, Ahron Bregman 202

The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved / Aharon Klieman, Alan Dershowitz 202

Palestine: A Twice Promised Land? The British, the Arabs & Zionism, 1915-1920 (vol. 1) / Aharon Klieman, Isaiah Friedman 202

Defending the Holy Land / Aharon Klieman, Zeev Maoz 202

A History of the Jews in the Modern World / Aharon Klieman, Howard M. Sachar 202

Zehuyot bemadim: gavriyut venashiyut bazava hayisreelit (Identities in uniform: masculinity and femininity in the Israeli army) / Amia Lieblich, Orna Sasson-Levy 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780195382914

0195382919

OCLC:

230730059