Muscling in on new worlds : : Jews, sport, and the making of the Americas / / edited by Raanan Rein, David M.K. Sheinin.

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 vehicle...

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Superior document:Jewish Latin America: Issues and Methods, Volume 5
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Jewish Latin America (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (217 p.)
Notes:"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.
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