Muscling in on new worlds : Jews, sport, and the making of the Americas /
Muscling in on New Worlds brings together a dynamic new collection of studies that approach sport as a window into Jewish identity formation in the Americas. Articles address football/soccer, yoga, boxing, and other sports as crucial points of Jewish interaction with other communities and as vehicle...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2015.
Series:
Jewish Latin America
5.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.
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Call Number: GV709.6 .M87 2015
- Preliminary Material /
- Raanan Rein and David M.K. Sheinin
- Introduction: Making an Adjustment /
- David M. K. Sheinin and Raanan Rein
- What Ray Arcell Saw in the Shower: Víctor Galíndez, Mike Rossman, and the Two Fights that Put an End to Jewish Boxing /
- David M.K. Sheinin
- "My Bobeh was Praying and Suffering for Atlanta": Family, Food and Language among the Jewish-Argentine Fans of the Club Atlético Atlanta /
- Raanan Rein
- Adaptations of Yoga: Jewish Interpretations /
- Eleanor F. Odenheimer , Rebecca Buchanan and Tanya Prewitt
- The Clothes They Wear and the Time They Keep: The Orthodox Athletes' Tests of Tolerance in Contemporary America /
- Jeffrey S. Gurock
- Jews, Sport, and the Construction of an American Identity /
- Gerald R. Gems
- The Macho-Mensch: Modeling American Jewish Masculinity and the Heroes of Baseball /
- Rebecca T. Alpert
- Muscles, Mimicry, Menschlikyat, and Madagascar: Jews, Sport, and Nature in us Cinema /
- Nathan Abrams
- Jewishness and Sports: The Case for Latin American Fiction /
- Alejandro Meter
- Redefining Jewish Athleticism: New Approaches and Research Directions /
- Ari Sclar
- Bibliography /
- Raanan Rein and David M.K. Sheinin
- Index /
- Raanan Rein and David M.K. Sheinin.