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Muscling in on new worlds : Jews, sport, and the making of the Americas /

"Muscling in on New Worlds brings together a dynamic new collection of studies that approach sport as a window into Jewish identity formation in the Americas. Articles address football/soccer, yoga, boxing, and other sports as crucial points of Jewish interaction with other communities and as v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rein, Raanan, 1960- (Editor ), Sheinin, David (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Colección:Jewish Latin America (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What Ray Arcell Saw in the Shower: Víctor Galíndez, Mike Rossman, and the Two Fights that Put an End to Jewish Boxing
  • "My Bobeh was Praying and Suffering for Atlanta": Family, Food and Language among the Jewish-Argentine Fans of the Club Atlético Atlanta
  • Adaptations of Yoga: Jewish Interpretations
  • The Clothes They Wear and the Time They Keep: The Orthodox Athletes' Tests of Tolerance in Contemporary America
  • Jews, Sport, and the Construction of an American Identity
  • The Macho-Mensch: Modeling American Jewish Masculinity and the Heroes of Baseball
  • Muscles, Mimicry, Menschlikyat, and Madagascar: Jews, Sport, and Nature in us Cinema
  • Jewishness and Sports: The Case for Latin American Fiction
  • Redefining Jewish Athleticism: New Approaches and Research Directions.