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Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship.

Publication: American Jewish History
Publication Date: 01-DEC-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship.(Book review)

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Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship. Edited by Jack Kugelmass. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. vi + 232 pp.

Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, edited by Jack Kugelmass, collects ten articles from a conference on Jews in sports. The ten papers vary greatly. After an introductory overview, they turn to Jews and horses; consider whether American Jews can be sportsmen; and examine eastern European Jewish sport societies and sport and Zionism in Tel Aviv, Libya, and Casablanca, as well as athletics at New York's Yeshiva University and the basketball gambling scandal at the City College of New York (CCNY). The introduction attempts to organize the discussion around the oppositional nature of sport, its role in assimilation and citizenship, the ways it civilizes the body, and whether the stereotype of the bookish Jewish male is or was ever true. The disparate nature of the articles, however, outruns the unity of the introduction.

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