Jews, sports, and the rites of citizenship / edited by Jack Kugelmass.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why sports? / Jack Kugelmass -- "How fiercely that gentile rides!" : Jews, horses and equestrian style / John Hoberman -- Unathletic department / Stephen J. Whitfield -- National regeneration in the ghetto : the Jewish Turnbewegung in Galicia / Joshua Shanes -- Zionism, politics, hedonism : sports in interwar Tel- Aviv / Anat Helman -- Jewish workers' sports movements in interwar Poland : Shtern and Morgnshtern in comparative perspective / Jack Jacobs -- Sabbath sport on the shores of Tripoli : muscles and memory among the Jews of Libya / Harvey E. Goldberg -- On matching unmatchables : football games between Jews and Muslims in Casablanca / André Levy -- Arab soccer in a Jewish state / Tamir Sorek -- The shame of the city : CCNY basketball, 1950-51 / Edward Shapiro -- The American Orthodox athlete : from contradiction in terms to institutional standard bearer / Jeffrey S. Gurock.