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Book SynopsisAlthough the study of Jewish identity has generated a body of work, the topic of sport has received scant attention in Jewish historiography. This title redresses this balance by analyzing the pertinence of sports to such issues as race, ethnicity, and gender in Jewish history and by examining the role of modern sport within European Jewry.
Trade Review“An engaging and deeply informative volume.”—
Jewish Book World"
Emancipation through Muscles is a significant contribution to the literature on the modern Jewish experience. Without exaggerating the import of sports for Jewish life in the 20th century, this volume goes a long way toward contributing to a much-needed corrective in the synthetic narrative of modern Jewish history."—Mitchell B. Hart,
Jews & the Sporting LifeTable of ContentsPart I: From "Talmud Jews" to "Muscle Jews" 1. Moshe Zimmermann (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Muscle Jews versus Nervous Jews; 2. Daniel Wildmann (Technical University, Berlin): Jewish Bodies on Display: Jewish Gymnasts and their Corporeal Utopias in Imperial Germany; 3. Gideon Reuveni (University of Munich): Sports and the Militarization of Jewish Society; 4. Sharon Gillerman (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles): A Strongman for All Seasons: Siegmund Breitbart and Interpretations of the Jewish Body Part II: The Making of Jewish Sports in Interwar Europe 5. Jacob Borut (Yad Vashem): Jews in German Sports during the Weimar Republic; 6. Jack Jacobs (City University, New York): The Politics of Jewish Sports Movements in Interwar Poland; 7. John Bunzl (Austrian Institute for International Affairs): Hakoah Vienna: Reflections on a Legend Part III Antisemitism and Sports 8. Michael John (University of Linz): A "Cultural Code"? Antisemitism in Austrian Sports between the Wars; 9. Tony Collins (De Montfort University Leicester): Jews, Antisemitism, and Sports in Britain, 1900-1939; 10. Rudolf Oswald (University of Munich): The "Anschluss" of Soccer: Nazi Ideology and the End of Central European Soccer-Professionalism, 1938-1941 Part IV Exiles, Survivors, and the Transformation of Jewish Identity 12. Albert Lichtblau (University of Salzberg): Soccer and Survival in Exile: Jewish Refugees in Shanghai; 13. Phillip Grammes (Journalist for Bayerischer Rundfunk and Judische Allgemeine Zeitung): Sports in the DP Camps 1945-1948: Development, Structures and Function; 14. Victor Karady (Central European University) and Miklos Hadas (Corvinus University): Soccer and Antisemitism in Hungary; 15. John Efron (University of California, Berkeley): When is a Yid Not a Jew? The Strange Case of Supporter Identity at Tottenham Hotspur Part I: From "Talmud Jews" to "Muscle Jews" 1. Moshe Zimmermann (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Muscle Jews versus Nervous Jews; 2. Daniel Wildmann (Technical University, Berlin): Jewish Bodies on Display: Jewish Gymnasts and their Corporeal Utopias in Imperial Germany; 3. Gideon Reuveni (University of Munich): Sports and the Militarization of Jewish Society; 4. Sharon Gillerman (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles): A Strongman for All Seasons: Siegmund Breitbart and Interpretations of the Jewish Body Part II: The Making of Jewish Sports in Interwar Europe 5. Jacob Borut (Yad Vashem): Jews in German Sports during the Weimar Republic; 6. Jack Jacobs (City University, New York): The Politics of Jewish Sports Movements in Interwar Poland; 7. John Bunzl (Austrian Institute for International Affairs): Hakoah Vienna: Reflections on a Legend Part III Antisemitism and Sports 8. Michael John (University of Linz): A "Cultural Code"? Antisemitism in Austrian Sports between the Wars; 9. Tony Collins (De Montfort University Leicester): Jews, Antisemitism, and Sports in Britain, 1900-1939; 10. Rudolf Oswald (University of Munich): The "Anschluss" of Soccer: Nazi Ideology and the End of Central European Soccer-Professionalism, 1938-1941 Part IV Exiles, Survivors, and the Transformation of Jewish Identity 12. Albert Lichtblau (University of Salzberg): Soccer and Survival in Exile: Jewish Refugees in Shanghai; 13. Phillip Grammes (Journalist for Bayerischer Rundfunk and Judische Allgemeine Zeitung): Sports in the DP Camps 1945-1948: Development, Structures and Function; 14. Victor Karady (Central European University) and Miklos Hadas (Corvinus University): Soccer and Antisemitism in Hungary; 15. John Efron (University of California, Berkeley): When is a Yid Not a Jew? The Strange Case of Supporter Identity at Tottenham Hotspur
