Table of Contents

Symposium: Jews and the Sporting Life
Sander L. Gilman (Emory University): Thoughts on the Jewish Body, Baseball, and the Problem of Integration
Diethelm Blecking (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat): Jews and Sports in Poland before the Second World War
Gabriel N. Finder (University of Virginia): "Boxing for Everyone": Jewish DPs, Sports, and Boxing
Michael Alexander (University of California, Riverside): The Jewish Bookmaker: Gambling, Legitimacy, and the American Political Economy
Jeffrey S. Gurock, (Yeshiva University): Pride and Priorities: American Jewry's Response to Hakoah Vienna's U.S. Tour of 1926
Edward S. Shapiro (Seton Hall University): From Participant to Owner: The Role of Jews in Contemporary American Sports
Anat Helman (The Hebrew University): Sports in the Young State of Israel
Tamir Sorek, (University of Florida): Why Did Beit Shean Let Betar Win?: Latent Ethnic Solidarity and the Sports Ethic in Israel
Sergio DellaPergola (The Hebrew University): Dream and Disenchantment: Massimo Della Pergola and the Invention of the Italian Totocalcio
Essays
Matthew Silver (Max Stern College of Emek Yezreel): Reflections from "Hutz La'aretz": Responses of Reform Rabbis to Israeli Statehood
Jan Schwarz (University of Chicago): 1953/1954: A Year in Yiddish Literature
Review Essays
Aharon Klieman: Denigrating Israel, Israeli Style
Daniel Blatman: Polish Antisemitism: A National Psychosis?
Book Reviews

About the Author

The Studies in Contemporary Jewry series is edited by Jonathan Frankel, Eli Lederhendler, Peter Y. Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, who teach Jewish history, society, and politics at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Ezra Mendelsohn, the editor of Volume XXIII, is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew University. He is author of On Modern Jewish
Politics, among other titles.

Reviews

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