Jews in the Gym

Acknowledgments
Editor’s Introduction
Contributors
Playing Roman in Jerusalem: Jewish Attitudes toward Sport and Spectacle during the Second Temple Period, by Loren R. Spielman
Sports and the Graphic Novel from Diaspora to Diaspora: James Strum’s The Golem’s Mighty Swing and JT Waldman’s Megillat Esther in the Tree of Contexts, by Ori Z. Soltes
The Jew in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics on Film, by Nathan Abrams
Is Life a Game? Athletic Competition as a Metaphor for the Meaning of Life Steven J. Riekes
The Jewish Athlete of Faith: On the Limits of Sport, by Danny Rosenberg
Antisemitism and Sport in Central Europe and the United States c. 1870-1932, by Steven A. Riess
Cutting the Way into the Nation: Hungarian Jewish Olympians in the Interwar Era, by Mihály Kálmán
Grappling with Ghosts: Jewish Wrestlers and Antisemitism, by William Kornblum, Erin Sodmiak, and Phil Oberlander
Sporting a Nation: The Origins of Athleticism in Modern Israel, by Nina Spiegel
Gyms and the Academy: Professional and Personal Reflections on Stepping Up to the Scholarly Plate, by Jeffrey S. Gurock
Jewish Women in the American Gym: Basketball, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Early Twentieth Century, by Linda J. Borish
From Benny Leonard to Abi Olajuwon: Jews, Muslims, Evangelicals, and the Evolving Religious Challenges of being an American Athlete, by Ori Z. Soltes Buster Haywood and the Jews of Black Baseball, by Rebecca T. Alpert
A Global Game: Omri Casspi and the Future of Jewish Ballers, by David J. Leonard