Jews in the gym : Judaism, sports, and athletics /

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 chronological ra...

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Corporate Authors: JSTOR (Organization), University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies, Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Klutznick-Harris Symposium
Other Authors: Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay)
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, 2012.
Series:Studies in Jewish civilization ; v. 23.
Subjects:
Jewish athletes > History.
Jews > Sports > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Jewish Studies.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
Jewish athletes.
Jews > Sports.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Playing Roman in Jerusalem : Jewish attitudes toward sport and spectacle during the Second Temple period / Loren R. Spielman
  • 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 / Ori Z. Soltes
  • The Jew in the gym : Judaism, sports and athletics of film / Nathan Abrams
  • Is life a game? : athletic competition as a metaphor for the meaning of life / Steven J. Riekes
  • The Jewish athlete of faith : on the limits of sport / Danny Rosenburg
  • Antisemitism and sport in Central Europe and the United States c. 1870-1932 / Steven A. Riess
  • Cutting the way into the nation : Hungarian Jewish Olympians in the interwar era / Mihály Kálmán
  • Grappling with ghosts : Jewish wrestlers and antisemitism / William Kornblum, Erin Sodmiak, and Phil Oberlander
  • Spotting a nation : the origins of athleticism in modern Israel / Nina Spiegel
  • Gyms and the academy : professional and personal reflections on stepping up to the scholarly plate / Jeffrey S. Gurock
  • Jewish women in the American gym : basketball, ethnicity, and gender in the early twentieth century / Linda J. Borish
  • From Benny Leonard to Abi Olajuwon : Jews, Muslims, Evangelicals, and the evolving religious challenges of being an American athlete / Ori Z. Soltes
  • Buster Haywood and the Jews of Black baseball / Rebecca T. Alpert
  • A global game : Omri Casspi and the future of Jewish ballers / David J. Leonard.