| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Judaism's Encounter with American Sports. By Jeffrey S. Gurock. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xii, 234 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-34700-9.)
This illuminating study uses sports as a prism through which to examine internecine and intergenerational conflict within the American Jewish community since the late nineteenth century. Disagreements centered on matters of acculturation, contacts between the sexes, and strategies to strengthen Jewish identity and commitment to Judaism among Jewish youth.	1
The author concentrates primarily on analyzing how traditional and modern Orthodox and Conservative rabbis and educators viewed sports and how Jewish schools, Jewish community centers (JCCs), and synagogues incorporated athletics into their programs. Jeffrey S. Gurock contends that the involvement of American Jewish youths in sports represented a sharp departure from East European Jews' attitudes and experience. East European Jews had long disdained sports as pagan, and they expressed concern that physicality encouraged overly aggressive and egocentric impulses that Jewish ethics opposed. The "cloistered yeshiva," committed to training the mind, gave little attention to recreation (p. 12).	. . .

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