Title Emancipation through muscles : Jews and sports in Europe / edited by Michael Brenner and Gideon Reuveni.

Publication Info.	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 277 pages) : illustrations
Note	"Based on a conference organized in May 2002 by the Institute of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and the Richard Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University, Jersalem."--Acknowledgements.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : why Jews and sports / Michael Brenner -- Muscle Jews versus nervous Jews / Moshe Zimmermann -- Jewish gymnasts and their corporeal utopias in imperial Germany / Daniel Wildmann -- Sports and the militarization of Jewish society / Gideon Reuveni -- Strongman Siegmund Breitbart and interpretations of the Jewish body / Sharon Gillerman -- Jews in German sports during the Weimar republic / Jacob Borut -- The politics of Jewish sports movements in interwar Poland / Jack Jacobs -- Hakoah Vienna : reflections on a legend / John Bunzl -- Antisemitism in Austrian sports between the wars / Michael John -- Jews, antisemitism, and sports in Britain, 1900-1939 / Tony Collins -- Nazi ideology and the end of Central European soccer professionalism, 1938-1941 / Rudolf Oswald -- Soccer and survival among Jewish refugees in Shanghai / Albert Lichtblau -- Sports in the DP camps, 1945-1948 / Philipp Grammes -- Soccer and antisemitism in Hungary / Victor Karady and Miklós Hadas -- When is a Yid not a Jew? the strange case of supporter identity at Tottenham Hotspur / John Efron.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Jews -- Sports -- History -- Congresses.
	Jewish athletes -- History -- Congresses.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
	GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
	TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
	Jewish athletes. (OCoLC)fst00982663
	Jews -- Sports. (OCoLC)fst00983373
Genre/Form	Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Brenner, Michael, 1964-
	Reuveni, Gideon.
	Universität München. Institute of Jewish History.
	Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim. Merkaz Ḳobner le-hisṭoryah Germanit.
Other Form:	Print version: Emancipation through muscles. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006 0803213557 (DLC) 2005032319 (OCoLC)62326642
ISBN	0803205422 (electronic bk.)
	9780803205420 (electronic bk.)

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