David Dee

Sport and British Jewry

Integration, ethnicity and anti-Semitism, 1890-1970

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Produktbeschreibung

Sport and British Jewry provides the first wide-ranging examination of the importance of sport in the history of the British-Jewish community. Covering the period from 1890 through to 1970, it examines the peak era of Jewish involvement and interest in sport and physical recreation in Britain in recent times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780719096570
• ISBN-10: 071909657X
• Artikelnr.: 41415994

Autorenporträt

David Dee is Lecturer in History at De Montfort University, Leicester

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I
Integration and 'Anglicisation' I. 'Anglicisation' through sport: The Jewish youth movement, 1895
1914 II. Competitive sport and immigrant integration, 1899
1939 III. 'Too Semitic' or 'thoroughly Anglicised'? The life and career of Harold Abrahams PART II
Religion and Ethnicity I. 'All on the side of the more athletic form of Sabbatarianism'
Physical recreation and the Jewish Sabbath II. The 'new' golden age of Jewish professional boxing III. Creating a 'new Jew'? Sport and Maccabi Great Britain, 1934
1970 PART III
Anti
Semitism I. The British Union of Fascists and the 'sporting Jew', 1935
1939 II. 'There is no discrimination here, but the committee never elects Jews': anti
Semitism and Golf III. Kicking discrimination into touch? Sport as a response to anti
Semitism Conclusion Bibliography