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  title info:
    title: Jews in the gym
    sub title: Judaism, sports, and athletics
  name:
    name part: Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay)
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  name:
    name part: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
    name part: Harris Center for Judaic Studies.
  name:
    name part: Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization
  name:
    name part: Klutznick-Harris Symposium 2010 : Omaha, Neb.)
  type of resource: text
  genre: globe
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: West Lafayette, Ind
    publisher: Purdue University Press
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 289 pages)) : illustrations, digital file.
  abstract: For some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem far-fetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating in?and thinking about?sports for more than two thousand years. The articles in this volume scan a wide chronological range: from the Hellenistic period (first century BCE) to the most recent basketball season. The range of athletes covered is equally broad: from participants in Roman-style games to wrestlers, boxers, fencers, baseball players, and basketball stars. The authors of these essays, many of whom actively participate in athletics themselves, raise a number of intriguing questions, such as: What differing attitudes toward sports have Jews exhibited across periods and cultures? Is it possible to be a?good Jew? and a?great athlete?? In what sports have Jews excelled, and why? How have Jews overcome prejudices on the part of the general populace against a Jewish presence on the field or in the ring? In what ways has Jewish participation in sports aided, or failed to aid, the perception of Jews as?good Germans,??good Hungarians,??good Americans,? and so forth? This volume, which features a number of illustrations (many of them quite rare), is not only accessible to the general reader, but also contains much information of interest to the scholar in Jewish studies, American studies, and sports history.
  table of contents: Playing Roman in Jerusalem : Jewish attitudes toward sport and spectacle during the Second Temple period / Loren R. Spielman -- Sports and the graphic novel from diaspora to diaspora : James Strum's The Golem's mighty swing and JT Waldman's Megillat Esther in the tree of contexts / Ori Z. Soltes -- The Jew in the gym : Judaism, sports and athletics of film / Nathan Abrams -- Is life a game? : athletic competition as a metaphor for the meaning of life / Steven J. Riekes -- The Jewish athlete of faith : on the limits of sport / Danny Rosenburg -- Antisemitism and sport in Central Europe and the United States c. 1870-1932 / Steven A. Riess -- Cutting the way into the nation : Hungarian Jewish Olympians in the interwar era / Mihály Kálmán -- Grappling with ghosts : Jewish wrestlers and antisemitism / William Kornblum, Erin Sodmiak, and Phil Oberlander -- Spotting a nation : the origins of athleticism in modern Israel / Nina Spiegel -- Gyms and the academy : professional and personal reflections on stepping up to the scholarly plate / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- Jewish women in the American gym : basketball, ethnicity, and gender in the early twentieth century / Linda J. Borish -- From Benny Leonard to Abi Olajuwon : Jews, Muslims, Evangelicals, and the evolving religious challenges of being an American athlete / Ori Z. Soltes -- Buster Haywood and the Jews of Black baseball / Rebecca T. Alpert -- A global game : Omri Casspi and the future of Jewish ballers / David J. Leonard.
  note: edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon.
  note: "Proceedings of the twenty-third annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization and the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, October 24-25, 2010."
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Jewish athletes
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Sports
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Jewish Studies
  subject:
    topic: GAMES
    topic: Gambling
    topic: Sports
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION
    topic: Business Aspects
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION
    topic: Essays
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION
    topic: Reference
  subject:
    topic: TRAVEL
    topic: Special Interest
    topic: Sports
  subject:
    topic: Jewish athletes
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Sports
  classification: GV709.6 .J487 2012
  classification: 796.088296
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Jewish civilization ; v. 23
  identifier: 9781612492407
  identifier: 1612492401
  identifier: 9781612492391
  identifier: 1612492398
  identifier: 9781557536297
  identifier: 1557536295
  identifier: 2012275015
  identifier: 22573/ctt6nxj2h JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wq5xt
  record info:
    record content source: Nz
    record creation date: 121015
    record change date: 20230103223244.3
    record identifier: in00004634569
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng