Judaism's Encounter with American Sports

Name: Judaism's Encounter with American Sports
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ISBN: 9780253347008

ISBN-10: 0253347009

ISBN-13: 9780253347008

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jeffrey S. Gurock

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This discourse examines how 'Sports' entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sport threatened religous identification and observance. Gurock uses the experience of sports to illuminate an important mode of modern Jewish religous conflict and accommodation.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 8/31/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



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