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"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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Published in:Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas & Experience Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 167 - 194
Main Author: Norwood, Stephen H.
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA May2009
Subjects:
Masculinity
Masculine identity
Self-defense
Boxing
Jewish boxers
Antisemitism
National socialism
Athletics
American Jews
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