TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rein,Raanan
AU  - Sheinin,David
TI  - Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas
T2  - Jewish Latin America Ser.
SN  - 9789004284494
AV  - GV709.6 .M87 2015 
U1  - 796.089924 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Jewish athletes -- History
KW  - Jews -- Identity
KW  - Jews -- Sports -- Argentina -- History
KW  - Jews -- Sports -- History
KW  - Jews -- Sports -- United States -- History
KW  - Sports -- Social aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -