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

By: Rein, RaananContributor(s): Sheinin, DavidMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Jewish Latin America SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004284494Subject(s): Jewish athletes -- History | Jews -- Identity | Jews -- Sports -- Argentina -- History | Jews -- Sports -- History | Jews -- Sports -- United States -- History | Sports -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Muscling in on New Worlds : Jews, Sport, and the Making of the AmericasDDC classification: 796.089924 LOC classification: GV709.6 .M87 2015Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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