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Between the 1890s and the 1960s, sport had a distinctive and varied impact on the social, cultural, political and economic life of the British Jewish community. During this period, Anglo-Jewry developed a clear sporting tradition, in both a direct and indirect sense, and their participation in the world of British sport had a significant impact on processes and discourses surrounding integration, ethnicity and anti-Semitism. Through a broad analysis of archival materials, newspaper sources and oral history, this thesis seeks to examine the influence that sport exerted on the Jewish community – paying particular attention to the ways in which physical recreation affected the internal dynamics of the community and influenced Jewish relations and interactions with the wider non-Jewish population. As will be shown, whilst sport is a useful lens through which to view socio-cultural development within Anglo-Jewish history, evidence suggests that physical recreation also had a notable and noticeable direct impact on Jewish life within Britain. Although Jewish sport history is an expanding field in an international context, it has been largely ignored within British academic research. Within the historiography of Anglo-Jewry, little attention has been paid to the socio-cultural impact of sporting participation. Similarly, within research concerning British sport history, race and immigration are themes that have been generally overlooked. As well as redressing important historiographical gaps, this thesis will also help expand our knowledge of the process behind minority integration and will further demonstrate the wider social importance, and the extensive and varied applications, of the historical study of sport. This thesis demonstrates that sport has been a key area for the creation, maintenance and erosion of Anglo-Jewish identity and has been an arena for the development, reinforcement and undermining of Jewish stereotypes. Sport, effectively, assumed a central role in Jewish life throughout this time period and was a pivotal factor in many social, cultural and political changes affecting the Jewish community of Britain.
The article revisits how Zionist sport activists and leaders in the Palestine of the 1920s and 1930s portrayed the desired transformation of their bodies and identities. It focuses, in particular, on the role that images of the “orient’’ played in that wishful transformation. For this purpose, the paper juxtaposes two different sport experiences that were carried out by members of the Maccabi Sport Organization: hiking expeditions within Palestine of the 1920s and 1930s and two motorcycle tours from Palestine to Europe, held in 1930 and 1931. In focusing on these two divergent examples, the article shows how the wishful transformation that Zionist sport activists and leaders expressed was informed by what could be termed re-orient-ation. By using such a term, the article points to an unresolved desire to actively re-build a local Palestinian Jewish identity while simultaneously preserving an obdurate self-image of a European settler in a degenerate East.
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This article is concerned with the phenomenon of football clubs that are identified as Jewish even when they have little or no history of a Jewish presence as owners, managers or players. As I will explain, across Europe there is usually one club in each country which is particularly identified in this way. Such identification becomes the focus of anti-Semitic chants and increasingly anti-Semitic violence where fans of the Jewish-identified club are attacked, often by fans with a fascistic allegiance, of the team the Jewish-identified club is playing. I argue that football has become a way of expressing the national experience, not just when one national team plays another but within the nation-state as the team identified as Jewish becomes the focus for attacks by those, often fascist in thinking if not in name, who feel that the nation would be more homogeneous and complete without ‘the Jews’.
Jewish Social Studies
German Jewish Athletes and the Formation of Zionist (Trans)National Culture2011 •
Between 1880 and 1914, London became the permanent home for thousands of Jewish immigrants hailing from Eastern Europe. This paper explores the significant role played by sport and physical recreation in the so-called ‘Anglicisation’ of the Jewish immigrant children within a newly created network of youth clubs and social and sporting organisations. While many established English Jews believed that introducing and promoting British sport among the ‘alien’ children was an effective means of ‘Anglicisation’, sections within the Jewish community soon began to fear that the focus on physical recreation was undermining traditional Jewish culture and contributing to a ‘drift’ towards religious indifference and apostasy.
A common Jewish Argentine creation story begins in 1889, with 824 Russian Jews disembarking in Buenos Aires and ushering in three decades of massive Jewish migration to that city. In six key themes, this article expands the parameters of that story chronologically, spatially, culturally, and politically. It focuses on the Jewish gaucho (skilled horseman) as an iconic representation of the intersections of Jewish and non-Jewish Buenos Aires; the meanings of neighborhood; the tragedy of 'white slavery'; cultural institutions; Sephardic porteños (Buenos Aires residents); and the Jewish anarchists and socialists.
Literary and Linguistic Studies of the Caucasus and Caspian
Historical Evolution of Tabari تحولاتِ تاریخیِ زبانِ طبری2021 •
Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
(49/8) Kanunî'nin Şiir ve Şair Sevmeyen Paşaları: Rüstem Paşa ve Ayas PaşaMediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 22, 2
ARCHAEOMETRICAL INVESTIGATION OF ROMAN SILVER COINS FROM BULGARIA2022 •
Scientific reports
Adapting Laplace residual power series approach to the Caudrey Dodd Gibbon equation2024 •
Akademik Hassasiyetler
Ai̇le İşletmeleri̇ni̇n Kuşaklararasi Devri̇: Vâri̇sler Üzeri̇ne Bi̇r Araştirma2021 •
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work
Mental health and the news media in Aotearoa New Zealand: Key informant perspectivesAsian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
Mapping EORTC-QLQ-C30 onto EQ-5D-5L Index in Indonesian Cancer Patients