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Hardcover Judaism's Encounter with American Sports Book

ISBN: 0253347009

ISBN13: 9780253347008

Judaism's Encounter with American Sports

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Judaism's Encounter with American Sports examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sports threatened religious identification and observance. What do Jews do when a society--in this case, a team--"chooses them in," but demands commitments that clash with ancestral ties and practices?

Jeffrey S. Gurock uses the experience of sports to illuminate an important mode of modern Jewish...

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