Judaism's Encounter with American Sports

by Jeffrey S. Gurock

Book Overview

Judaism's Encounter with American Sports examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sports threatened religious identification and observance. What do Jews do when a society--in this case, a team--"chooses them in," but demands commitments that clash with ancestral ties and practices?

Jeffrey S. Gurock uses the experience of sports to illuminate an important mode of modern Jewish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253347009
• ISBN13: 9780253347008
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher