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  • Embodying the Revolution: The Hebrew Experience and the Globalization of Modern Sports in Interwar Palestine

    Embodying the Revolution by Idels, Ofer;

    The Hebrew Experience and the Globalization of Modern Sports in Interwar Palestine

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Rutgers University Press
    • Date of Publication 14 October 2025
    • Number of Volumes Hardback with laminated cover

    • ISBN 9781978844469
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages168 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 454 g
    • Language English
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    This original and thought-provoking study offers a fresh perspective on Zionism by exploring Hebrew culture’s ambivalent attitude toward modern sports. Drawing on extensive archival sources and contemporary literary theories, it focuses on Zionism’s surprising anxiety toward sports during the interwar heyday of “muscular Judaism,” revealing an unusual society in which athletes failed to attain national pride and distinction. Addressing themes such as the body, language, space, immigration, internationalism, amateurism, gender, and militarization, Embodying the Revolution presents an innovative reading of Jewish life in Mandate Palestine, linking the marginalization of sports to the meaning and experience of the Zionist Revolution. Idels' compelling interpretation of the appeal of sports, selfhood, and the compromises inherent in radical aspirations—narrated from the periphery of the interwar global rise of sports—challenges contemporary assumptions that dismiss ideology as an elitist myth.

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