Jews in the gym : Judaism, sports, and athletics / / editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon.

• Superior document: Studies in Jewish civilization, v. 23
• Author: Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization.
• TeilnehmendeR: Greenspoon, Leonard J.; Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization.; University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies.; ProQuest (Firm); Klutznick-Harris Symposium (23rd : 2010 : Omaha, Neb.)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Jewish civilization ; 23.
• Physical Description: xvi, 289 p. :; ill.
• Notes: "Proceedings of the twenty-third annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization and the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, October 24-25, 2010" -- P. [i].

For some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem far-fetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating in -- and thinking about -- sports for more than two thousand years. The articles in this volume scan a wide chronologi...

Table of Contents

• Playing Roman in Jerusalem : Jewish attitudes toward sport and spectacle during the Second Temple period / Loren R. Spielman
• Sports and the graphic novel from diaspora to diaspora : James Strum's The Golem's mighty swing and JT Waldman's Megillat Esther in the tree of contexts / Ori Z. Soltes
• The Jew in the gym : Judaism, sports and athletics of film / Nathan Abrams
• Is life a game? : athletic competition as a metaphor for the meaning of life / Steven J. Riekes
• The Jewish athlete of faith : on the limits of sport / Danny Rosenburg
• Antisemitism and sport in Central Europe and the United States c. 1870-1932 / Steven A. Riess
• Cutting the way into the nation : Hungarian Jewish Olympians in the interwar era / Mihaly Kalman
• Grappling with ghosts : Jewish wrestlers and antisemitism / William Kornblum, Erin Sodmiak, and Phil Oberlander
• Spotting a nation : the origins of athleticism in modern Israel / Nina Spiegel
• Gyms and the academy : professional and personal reflections on stepping up to the scholarly plate / Jeffrey S. Gurock
• Jewish women in the American gym : basketball, ethnicity, and gender in the early twentieth century / Linda J. Borish
• From Benny Leonard to Abi Olajuwon : Jews, Muslims, Evangelicals, and the evolving religious challenges of being an American athlete / Ori Z. Soltes
• Buster Haywood and the Jews of Black baseball / Rebecca T. Alpert
• A global game : Omri Casspi and the future of Jewish ballers / David J. Leonard.