Judaic Studies

Although the study of Jewish identity has generated a growing body of work, the topic of sport has received scant attention. This book redresses this balance by analyzing the pertinence of sports to such issues as race, ethnicity, and gender in Jewish history and by examining the role of modern sport within European Jewry.

Brings together the perspectives of anthropologists and historians to provide both methodological and regional comparative frameworks for exploring the meaning of sports for a minority population.

Explores how four major European football clubs--FC Bayern Munich, FK Austria Vienna, Ajax Amsterdam, and Tottenham Hotspur--came to be seen as "Jew Clubs," even though they have never officially identified as Jewish.

Brings together a new collection of studies that approach sport as a window into Jewish identity in the Americas. Articles address football/soccer, yoga, boxing, and other sports as crucial points of Jewish interaction with other communities and as vehicles for reconciling the legacy of immigration and Jewish distinctiveness in new world national and regional contexts.