Emancipation through muscles : Jews and sports in Europe / edited by Michael Brenner and Gideon Reuveni.

"Based on a conference organized in May 2002 by the Institute of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and the Richard Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University, Jersalem."--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : why Jews and sports / Michael Brenner -- Muscle Jews versus nervous Jews / Moshe Zimmermann -- Jewish gymnasts and their corporeal utopias in imperial Germany / Daniel Wildmann -- Sports and the militarization of Jewish society / Gideon Reuveni -- Strongman Siegmund Breitbart and interpretations of the Jewish body / Sharon Gillerman -- Jews in German sports during the Weimar republic / Jacob Borut -- The politics of Jewish sports movements in interwar Poland / Jack Jacobs -- Hakoah Vienna : reflections on a legend / John Bunzl -- Antisemitism in Austrian sports between the wars / Michael John -- Jews, antisemitism, and sports in Britain, 1900-1939 / Tony Collins -- Nazi ideology and the end of Central European soccer professionalism, 1938-1941 / Rudolf Oswald -- Soccer and survival among Jewish refugees in Shanghai / Albert Lichtblau -- Sports in the DP camps, 1945-1948 / Philipp Grammes -- Soccer and antisemitism in Hungary / Victor Karady and Miklós Hadas -- When is a Yid not a Jew? the strange case of supporter identity at Tottenham Hotspur / John Efron.