Intro -- Contents -- Symposium: Jews and the Sporting Life -- Thoughts on the Jewish Body, Baseball, and the Problem of Integration -- Jews and Sports in Poland before the Second World War -- Boxing for Everyone": Jewish DPs, Sports, and Boxing -- The Jewish Bookmaker: Gambling, Legitimacy, and the American Political Economy -- Pride and Priorities: American Jewry's Response to Hakoah Vienna's U.S. Tour of 1926 -- From Participant to Owner: The Role of Jews in Contemporary American Sports -- Sports in the Young State of Israel -- Why Did Beit Shean Let Betar Win? Latent Ethnic Solidarity and the Sports Ethic in Israel -- Dream and Disenchantment: Massimo Della Pergola and the Invention of the Italian Totocalcio -- Essays -- Reflections from "Hutz La'aretz": Responses of Reform Rabbis to Israeli Statehood -- 1953/1954: A Year in Yiddish Literature -- Review Essays -- Denigrating Israel, Israeli Style -- Polish Antisemitism: A National Psychosis? -- Book Reviews -- Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide -- The Jews Are Coming Back: The Return of the Jews to Their Countries of Origin after WWII -- My z Jedwabnego (We from Jedwabne) -- Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland -- Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony -- Fear: Antisemitism in Poland after Auschwitz -- Obliged by Memory: Literature, Religion, Ethics -- The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day -- Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present -- Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands -- From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The "Jewish Question" in Poland, 1850-1914 -- Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust.

U genezy Jedwabnego: Żydzi na kresach północno-wschodnich II Rzeczpospolitej, wrzesień 1939-lipiec 1941 (The genesis of Jedwabne: Jews and the southeastern borderlands of the second Polish republic, September 1939-July 1941) -- Cultural Studies and Religion -- Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists -- My Yeshiva College: 75 Years of Memories -- Portraying 'the Jew' in First World War Britain -- Two Models of Jewish Philosophy: Justifying One's Practices -- History and the Social Sciences -- Commentary Magazine, 1949-59: 'A Journal of Significant Thought and Opinion' -- Jews and Gender in Liberation France -- Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis -- Building a Diaspora: Russian Jews in Israel, Germany and the USA -- Emancipation through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe -- The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 -- Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945 -- The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel Versus the American Jewish Establishment -- Molitva (Prayer) -- James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World -- American Judaism: A History -- Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East -- Hevrah vekhalkalah beyisrael: mabat histori ve'akhshavi (Society and economy in Israel: historical and contemporary perspectives) -- Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy -- The Boundaries of Modern Palestine, 1840-1947 -- Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America -- The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved -- Palestine: A Twice Promised Land? The British, the Arabs & Zionism, 1915-1920 (vol. 1) -- Defending the Holy Land -- A History of the Jews in the Modern World -- Zehuyot bemadim: gavriyut venashiyut bazava hayisreelit (Identities in uniform: masculinity and femininity in the Israeli army) -- Contents for Volume XXIV -- Note on Editorial Policy.

Volume XXIII of the acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series published on behalf of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Jewry explores the largely overlooked role of sports in modern Jewish history.

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