| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) |
| Series |
Jewish Latin America : issues and mthods ; volume 5 |
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Jewish Latin America (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 5.
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| Contents |
What Ray Arcell Saw in the Shower: Víctor Galíndez, Mike Rossman, and the Two Fights that Put an End to Jewish Boxing -- "My Bobeh was Praying and Suffering for Atlanta": Family, Food and Language among the Jewish-Argentine Fans of the Club Atlético Atlanta -- Adaptations of Yoga: Jewish Interpretations -- The Clothes They Wear and the Time They Keep: The Orthodox Athletes' Tests of Tolerance in Contemporary America --Jews, Sport, and the Construction of an American Identity -- The Macho-Mensch: Modeling American Jewish Masculinity and the Heroes of Baseball -- Muscles, Mimicry, Menschlikyat, and Madagascar: Jews, Sport, and Nature in us Cinema --Jewishness and Sports: The Case for Latin American Fiction -- Redefining Jewish Athleticism: New Approaches and Research Directions |
| 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. 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"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jews -- Sports -- History
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Jews -- Sports -- United States -- History
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Jews -- Sports -- Argentina -- History
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Jewish athletes -- History
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Jews -- Identity.
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GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
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Jewish athletes
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Jews -- Identity
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Jews -- Sports
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Argentina
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rein, Raanan, 1960- editor.
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Sheinin, David, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004284494 |
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9004284494 |
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