Muscling in on New Worlds ：Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas

Publication series ：1

Author： Rein Raanan;Sheinin David

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9789004284494

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004284487

Subject： G811.9 world sports

Keyword：宗教

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

Chapter

Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas

Introduction: Making an Adjustment

1 What Ray Arcell Saw in the Shower: Víctor Galíndez, Mike Rossman, and the Two Fights that Put an End to Jewish Boxing

2 “My Bobeh was Praying and Suffering for Atlanta”: Family, Food and Language among the Jewish-Argentine Fans of the Club Atlético Atlanta

3 Adaptations of Yoga: Jewish Interpretations

4 The Clothes They Wear and the Time They Keep: The Orthodox Athletes’ Tests of Tolerance in Contemporary America

5 Jews, Sport, and the Construction of an American Identity

6 The Macho-Mensch: Modeling American Jewish Masculinity and the Heroes of Baseball

7 Muscles, Mimicry, Menschlikyat, and Madagascar: Jews, Sport, and Nature in us Cinema

8 Jewishness and Sports: The Case for Latin American Fiction

9 Redefining Jewish Athleticism: New Approaches and Research Directions

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