By Michael Brenner, Gideon Reuveni
Even though the learn of Jewish identification has generated a becoming physique of labor, the subject of recreation has got scant awareness in Jewish historiography. Emancipation via muscle mass redresses this stability through reading the pertinence of activities to such matters as race, ethnicity, and gender in Jewish historical past and by way of studying the position of recent activity inside of eu Jewry.The accomplishments of Jews within the highbrow enviornment and their remarkable presence between Nobel Prize recipients have frequently overshadowed their achievements in activities. The pursuit of activities between Jews in Europe was once by no means a marginal phenomenon, besides the fact that. within the first 3rd of the 20th century quite a few Jewish game agencies have been based all through Europe, and prowess within the realm known as “muscle Jewry” by way of the Zionists was once an emblem of frequent satisfaction between ecu Jews. a few Jewish groups have been remarkably winning: the mythical Austrian football champion Hakoah Vienna was once arguably the main obvious Jewish presence in interwar Vienna, and lots of readers can be shocked to profit that extraordinary football groups similar to Ajax Amsterdam and Tottenham Hotspur are nonetheless thought of “Jewish teams.”The individuals to this quantity, a global workforce of students from various fields, discover the varied relationships among Jews and sleek activities in Europe.
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115–22, in which he refers to the Nervensystem of the Jews (p. 120). See also Dr. Jeremias, “Turnen und Nervensystem,” JTZ no. 9 (September 1904), pp. 154–56. 14. Jalowicz, “Die Körperliche Entartung,” p. 64. 15. Jalowicz, “Der erste jüdische Turntag in Basel,” JTZ, 1903, no. 9, p. 165. 16. Hirsch, “Turnen und Sport,” p. 54. 17. ” Jüdische Monatshefte für Turnen und Sport no. 5 (September 1918), p. 6. 18. Nordau, “Kongressrede 1907,” in Zionistische Schriften, pp. 174–87, 176. 19. Nordau, Die Conventionellen L¨ uegen der Menschheit (Leipzig, 1884), p.
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