"AMERICAN JEWISH MUSCLE": FORGING A NEW MASCULINITY IN THE STREETS AND IN THE RING, 1890-1940.
The article focuses on the establishment of local self-defense organizations for the American Jewish muscular identity, specifically in sports. It notes that boxing symbolizes working- and lower-middle-class Jews' determination to challenge antisemitism and Nazism. It points out that the achievement...
| Publicado en: | Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas & Experience Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 167 - 194 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
May2009
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the establishment of local self-defense organizations for the American Jewish muscular identity, specifically in sports. It notes that boxing symbolizes working- and lower-middle-class Jews' determination to challenge antisemitism and Nazism. It points out that the achievements Jewish boxers complemented the efforts of American Jewish veteran organizations. Sports tend to drew the Jews into larger American surroundings. History outlines that Jewish activists organizing against antisemitism recovered the overwhelmed heritage of military prowess and associate it with sports. |
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