Judaism's encounter with American sports
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c2005.
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| Serier: | Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
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| Online adgang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Prologue: A historian's challenge
- Introduction: Sports and Judaism in competition
- From ancient struggles through a medieval time-out
- Judaism's first modern sports skirmishes
- The challenge and opportunity of a new world of American sports
- The training of "all-American" Yeshiva boys
- Shul vs. pool : interwar battles and early postwar engagements
- The mission of American Jewry's team
- An irresistible force
- Safe at home : tension in Judaism's clubhouse
- Epilogue: A clear path to the finish line.