Jews, sports, and the rites of citizenship
By: edited by Jack Kugelmass.
Contributors: Kugelmass, Jack.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780252030826; 9780252073243
Subjects: Jews -- Sports -- History; Jewish athletes -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why sports? / Jack Kugelmass; title: "How fiercely that gentile rides!" : Jews, horses and equestrian style / John Hoberman; title: Unathletic department / Stephen J. Whitfield; title: National regeneration in the ghetto : the Jewish Turnbewegung in Galicia / Joshua Shanes; title: Zionism, politics, hedonism : sports in interwar Tel- Aviv / Anat Helman; title: Jewish workers' sports movements in interwar Poland : Shtern and Morgnshtern in comparative perspective / Jack Jacobs; title: Sabbath sport on the shores of Tripoli : muscles and memory among the Jews of Libya / Harvey E. Goldberg; title: On matching unmatchables : football games between Jews and Muslims in Casablanca / André Levy; title: Arab soccer in a Jewish state / Tamir Sorek; title: The shame of the city : CCNY basketball, 1950-51 / Edward Shapiro; title: The American Orthodox athlete : from contradiction in terms to institutional standard bearer / Jeffrey S. Gurock.