Jews in the Gym : Judaism, Sports, and Athletics.

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For some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem far-fetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating in -- and thinking about -- sports for more than two thousand years. The articles in this volume scan a wide chronologi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greenspoon, Leonard J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ashland : Purdue University Press, 2014.
©2012
Colección:Studies in Jewish civilization.
Temas:
Jews > Sports > History.
Jewish athletes > History.
Juifs > Sports > Histoire.
Jewish athletes
Jews > Sports
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Cover""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Editorâ€?s Introduction""; ""Contributors""; ""Playing Roman in Jerusalem: Jewish Attitudes toward Sport and Spectacle during the Second Temple Period ""; "" Sports and the Graphic Novel from Diaspora to Diaspora: James Strum's The Golem's Mighty Swing and JT Waldman's Megillat Esther in the Tree of Contexts""; "" The Jew in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics on Film""; "" Is Life a Game? Athletic Competition as a Metaphor for the Meaning of Life""
  • "" The Jewish Athlete of Faith: On the Limits of Sport"""" Antisemitism and Sport in Central Europe and the United States c. 1870-1932""; "" Cutting the Way into the Nation: Hungarian Jewish Olympians in the Interwar Era""; "" Grappling with Ghosts: Jewish Wrestlers and Antisemitism""; ""Sporting a Nation: The Origins of Athleticism in Modern Israel ""; ""Gyms and the Academy: Professional and Personal Reflections on Stepping Up to the Scholarly Plate ""; ""Jewish Women in the American Gym: Basketball, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Early Twentieth Century ""
  • ""From Benny Leonard to Abi Olajuwon: Jews, Muslims, Evangelicals, and the Evolving Religious Challenges of being an American Athlete """"Buster Haywood and the Jews of Black Baseball ""; "" A Global Game: Omri Casspi and the Future of Jewish Ballers""

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