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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-31 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher:
[The experience of sports participation is used to illuminate modern Jewish religious conflict and accommodation to America, underscoring basic religious dilemm
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-06-01 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press
This book debunks the conventional stereotype that Jews and sports are somehow anathema and clearly demonstrates that sports have long been a significant instit
Language: en
Pages: 164
Pages: 164
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-15 - Publisher: Purdue University Press
In the decades after the Civil War, sports slowly gained a prominent position within American culture. This development provided Jews with opportunities to part
Language: en
Pages: 353
Pages: 353
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
In Ellis Island to Ebbets Field, Peter Levine vividly recounts the stories of Red Auerbach, Hank Greenberg, Moe Berg, Sid Luckman, Nat Holman, Benny Leonard, Ba