Emancipation through muscles
Subtitle: Jews and sports in Europe
By: edited by Michael Brenner and Gideon Reuveni.
Contributors: Brenner, Michael.; Reuveni, Gideon.; Universität München. Institute of Jewish History.; Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim. Merkaz Ḳobner le-hisṭoryah Germanit.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780803213555
Subjects: Jews -- Sports -- History -- Congresses; Jewish athletes -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Proceedings of a conference organized in May 2002 by the Institute of Jewish History, Universität München and the Merkaz Ḳobner le-hisṭoryah Germanit, Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : why Jews and sports / Michael Brenner; title: Muscle Jews versus nervous Jews / Moshe Zimmermann; title: Jewish gymnasts and their corporeal utopias in imperial Germany / Daniel Wildmann; title: Sports and the militarization of Jewish society / Gideon Reuveni; title: Strongman Siegmund Breitbart and interpretations of the Jewish body / Sharon Gillerman; title: Jews in German sports during the Weimar republic / Jacob Borut; title: The politics of Jewish sports movements in interwar Poland / Jack Jacobs; title: Hakoah Vienna : reflections on a legend / John Bunzl; title: Antisemitism in Austrian sports between the wars / Michael John; title: Jews, antisemitism, and sports in Britain, 1900-1939 / Tony Collins; title: Nazi ideology and the end of central European soccer professionalism, 1938-1941 / Rudolf Oswald; title: Soccer and survival among Jewish refugees in Shanghai / Albert Lichtblau; title: Sports in the dp camps, 1945-1948 / Philipp Grammes; title: Soccer and antisemitism in Hungary / Victor Karady and Mikls Hadas; title: When is a Yid not a Jew? the strange case of supporter identity at Tottenham Hotspur / John Efron.