Muscling in on New Worlds

Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-28448-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Jewish Latin America

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. Articles address football/soccer, yoga, boxing, and other sports as crucial points of Jewish interaction with other communities and as vehicles for reconciling the legacy of immigration and Jewish distinctiveness in new world national and regional contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rein, Raanan

Sheinin, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

133,Introduction: Making an Adjustment David M.K. Sheinin and Raanan Rein
Chapter One: What Ray Arcell Saw in the Shower: Víctor Galíndez, Mike Rossman, and the Two Fights that Put an End to Jewish Boxing David M.K. Sheinin
Chapter Two: “My Bobeh was Praying and Suffering for Atlanta”: Family, Food and Language among the Jewish-Argentine Fans of the Club Atlético Atlanta Raanan Rein
Chapter Three: Adaptations of Yoga: Jewish Interpretations Eleanor F. Odenheimer, Rebecca Buchanan and Tanya Prewitt
Chapter Four: The Clothes They Wear and the Time They Keep: The Orthodox Athletes’ Tests of Tolerance in Contemporary America
Jeffrey S. Gurock
Chapter Five: Jews, Sport, and the Construction of an American Identity Gerald R. Gems
Chapter Six: The Macho-Mensch: Modeling American Jewish Masculinity and the Heroes of Baseball Rebecca T. Alpert
Chapter Seven: Muscles, Mimicry, Menschlikyat, and Madagascar: Jews, Sport, and Nature in US Cinema Nathan Abrams
Chapter Eight: Jewishness and Sports: The Case for Latin American Fiction Alejandro Meter
Concluding Essay: Redefining Jewish Athleticism: New Approaches and Research Directions Ari Sclar
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Raanan Rein, Ph.D. (1991), Tel Aviv University, is the Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at that University. He has published numerous books and articles on modern Argentina history, as well as on Jewish experiences in Latin America. His most recent book is Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina (Stanford University Press, 2014).

David M. K. Sheinin is Professor of History at Trent University (Canada) and a member of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina.

He is the winner of the 2013 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize for Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War (University Press of Florida, 2012).