Physical education and sports in the Jewish history and culture
Subtitle: proceedings of an international seminar at Wingate Institute, July 1973
By: editor, Uriel Simri
Contributors: Mekhon Ṿingaiṭ le-ḥinukh gufani; Simri, Uriel, editor
Publisher: Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sport
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Netanya, Israel]
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Jewish athletes; Physical education and training; History; Congresses; Jews; Civilization
Notes: Added t.p. in Hebrew.

English and Hebrew; essays in Hebrew have abstracts in English.

Includes bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: Greek athletics and the Jews of Palestine / Harold A. Harris; title: The introduction of Greek contests into Jerusalem through Herod the Great and its political significance / Manfred Laemmer; title: Physical culture in the period of the Talmud (abstract) / Jehoshua Alouf; title: Greek athletics and the Jews of the dispersion in the early Roman Empire / Harold A. Harris; title: Physical culture in the writings of Maimonides (abstract) / Meir Bakshi; title: The responsa of Rabbi Moses Provencalo about the game of tennis on Sabbath (abstract) / Uriel Simri; title: The body and its activities in the writings of the Maharal (abstract) / Aharon Yarchi; title: Ideological tendencies in the historiography of sport in the Jewish culture / Manfred Laemmer; title: Sociological aspects of physical education and sport in the Jewish culture (abstract) / Yariv Oren; title: The place of Jewish athletes in the modern Olympic games / Uriel Simri; title: The role of Jewish sportsmen during the Olympic Games in 1936 / Hajo Bernett; title: The role of American Jewish fencers in international competitions / Maxwell R. Garret; title: The role of physical strength in the teaching of Rabbi Isaac Kook (abstract) / Jeshaiahu Schwed; title: The encroachment of the "Voelkisch" antisemitism on the German Gymnastics Festival, 1923 / Hajo Bernett; title: The historical background of the creation of the Maccabi World Union / Arthur Hanak; title: The history of the Maccabiah Games (abstract) / Jehoshua Alouf; title: Judaism and sports / Victor Solomon; title: Selected bibliography on the topic : physical education in the Jewish culture in antiquity.