Pages:
mp3
Year of publication:
2007
Series Statement:
[Veranstaltungsabteilung des Jüdischen Museums Berlin] Veranstaltungen 070521
Series Statement:
Veranstaltungen
Abstract:
Although Jews played a major role as competitive athletes at the start of the twentieth century, they do not occupy a significant place in Jewish memory. ůI cannot recall any other subject in Jewish culture,ś writes scholar George Eisen, ůthat could elicit such conflicting emotions, oscillating between a yawningly mild interest, bordering on apathy and an ardent apologia. In an almost collusive way, the scholarly community has vacillated between grudging recognition and a desultory dismissal of the idea of Jewish prominence in sports.ś Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship as well as interviews with Central European athletes, Helen Epstein sketches the life of her father (1904-1975) and his generation of Jewish sportsmen and women.
URL:
http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/DE/02-Veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen-2007/2007_05_21_epstein.php
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