Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship
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anthropology
athletes
baseball
basketball
boxing
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comparative religion
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exclusivity
fencing
historians
imaginary
interdisciplinary
minority population
nation
Sandy Koufax
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- ISBN 9780252073243
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jan 2007
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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To many, an association between Jews and sports seems almost oxymoronic--yet Jews have been prominent in boxing, basketball, and fencing, and some would argue that hurler Sandy Koufax is America's greatest athlete ever. In Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, Jack Kugelmass shows that sports--significant in constructing nations and in determining their degree of exclusivity--also figures prominently in the Jewish imaginary. This interdisciplinary collection brings together the perspectives of anthropologists and historians to provide both methodological and regional comparative frameworks for exploring the meaning of sports for a minority population.
Jack Kugelmass is a professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is the author of The Miracle of Intervale Avenue.
