Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII

Volume XXIII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the role of sports in modern Jewish history. The centrality of sports in modern life--in popular and even in high culture, in economic life, in the media, in international and national politics, and in forging ethnic identities--can hardly be exaggerated, but in the field of Jewish studies this subject has been somewhat neglected, at least until recently. Students of American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195382919
• ISBN13: 9780195382914
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"