"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...

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Publicado en:Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas & Experience Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 167 - 194
Autor principal: Norwood, Stephen H.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA May2009
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