Emancipation Through Muscles

Michael Brenner is a professor in the Institute of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. He is the author of Zionism: A Brief History and The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany. Gideon Reuveni is a research fellow at the Institute of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. He is the author of Reading Germany: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933.

• Part I: From "Talmud Jews" to "Muscle Jews" 1. Moshe Zimmermann (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Muscle Jews versus Nervous Jews; 2. Daniel Wildmann (Technical University, Berlin): Jewish Bodies on Display: Jewish Gymnasts and their Corporeal Utopias in Imperial Germany; 3. Gideon Reuveni (University of Munich): Sports and the Militarization of Jewish Society; 4. Sharon Gillerman (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles): A Strongman for All Seasons: Siegmund Breitbart and Interpretations of the Jewish Body Part II: The Making of Jewish Sports in Interwar Europe 5. Jacob Borut (Yad Vashem): Jews in German Sports during the Weimar Republic; 6. Jack Jacobs (City University, New York): The Politics of Jewish Sports Movements in Interwar Poland; 7. John Bunzl (Austrian Institute for International Affairs): Hakoah Vienna: Reflections on a Legend Part III Antisemitism and Sports 8. Michael John (University of Linz): A "Cultural Code"? Antisemitism in Austrian Sports between the Wars; 9. Tony Collins (De Montfort University Leicester): Jews, Antisemitism, and Sports in Britain, 1900-1939; 10. Rudolf Oswald (University of Munich): The "Anschluss" of Soccer: Nazi Ideology and the End of Central European Soccer-Professionalism, 1938-1941 Part IV Exiles, Survivors, and the Transformation of Jewish Identity 12. Albert Lichtblau (University of Salzberg): Soccer and Survival in Exile: Jewish Refugees in Shanghai; 13. Phillip Grammes (Journalist for Bayerischer Rundfunk and Judische Allgemeine Zeitung): Sports in the DP Camps 1945-1948: Development, Structures and Function; 14. Victor Karady (Central European University) and Miklos Hadas (Corvinus University): Soccer and Antisemitism in Hungary; 15. John Efron (University of California, Berkeley): When is a Yid Not a Jew? The Strange Case of Supporter Identity at Tottenham Hotspur Part I: From "Talmud Jews" to "Muscle Jews" 1. Moshe Zimmermann (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Muscle Jews versus Nervous Jews; 2. Daniel Wildmann (Technical University, Berlin): Jewish Bodies on Display: Jewish Gymnasts and their Corporeal Utopias in Imperial Germany; 3. Gideon Reuveni (University of Munich): Sports and the Militarization of Jewish Society; 4. Sharon Gillerman (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles): A Strongman for All Seasons: Siegmund Breitbart and Interpretations of the Jewish Body Part II: The Making of Jewish Sports in Interwar Europe 5. Jacob Borut (Yad Vashem): Jews in German Sports during the Weimar Republic; 6. Jack Jacobs (City University, New York): The Politics of Jewish Sports Movements in Interwar Poland; 7. John Bunzl (Austrian Institute for International Affairs): Hakoah Vienna: Reflections on a Legend Part III Antisemitism and Sports 8. Michael John (University of Linz): A "Cultural Code"? Antisemitism in Austrian Sports between the Wars; 9. Tony Collins (De Montfort University Leicester): Jews, Antisemitism, and Sports in Britain, 1900-1939; 10. Rudolf Oswald (University of Munich): The "Anschluss" of Soccer: Nazi Ideology and the End of Central European Soccer-Professionalism, 1938-1941 Part IV Exiles, Survivors, and the Transformation of Jewish Identity 12. Albert Lichtblau (University of Salzberg): Soccer and Survival in Exile: Jewish Refugees in Shanghai; 13. Phillip Grammes (Journalist for Bayerischer Rundfunk and Judische Allgemeine Zeitung): Sports in the DP Camps 1945-1948: Development, Structures and Function; 14. Victor Karady (Central European University) and Miklos Hadas (Corvinus University): Soccer and Antisemitism in Hungary; 15. John Efron (University of California, Berkeley): When is a Yid Not a Jew? The Strange Case of Supporter Identity at Tottenham Hotspur

“An engaging and deeply informative volume.”—Jewish Book World|"Emancipation through Muscles is a significant contribution to the literature on the modern Jewish experience. Without exaggerating the import of sports for Jewish life in the 20th century, this volume goes a long way toward contributing to a much-needed corrective in the synthetic narrative of modern Jewish history."—Mitchell B. Hart, Jews & the Sporting Life