The Jewish Olympics
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The Jewish Olympics
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Author : Ron Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-07-07
The Jewish Olympics written by Ron Kaplan and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Having grown from 390 athletes from fourteen countries to nine thousand athletes from seventy-eight countries, the Maccabiah Games (or the “Jewish Olympics,” as it has come to be known) continue to gain popularity. The Maccabiah Games, which take place in Israel, first began in 1932, and the latest games took place in July of 2013, with the debut of participants from Cuba, Albania, and Nicaragua. Sports range from table tennis to ice hockey, basketball, chess, and much more. Past participants have included former NBA coach Larry Brown, Olympic swimmers Mark Spitz and Jason Lezak, and Olympic gymnast Mitch Gaylord, among others. The Jewish Olympics details the history of the Maccabiah Games, including how they began, how they have grown in popularity, how they have impacted the Jewish community worldwide, and much more. In addition, it highlights the countless special achievements of the athletes over the course of the nineteen games. The Jewish Olympics is a detailed and fascinating history that will interest any sports fan, as well as individuals interested in cultural events. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Jews And The Olympic Games
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Author : Paul Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Jews And The Olympic Games written by Paul Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Celebrating the unusually rich collection of stories that make up the history of the Jews at the Olympic Games, this work shows how many of the athletes fought battles both on and off the running track and how the personal drama and enduring humanity of their stories goes beyond sport and embraces politics, heroism, and resilience. From the first Olympics in Athens in 1896 through to the disasters and triumphs of Munich 1972 and beyond, Jews and the Olympic Games, which features a list of the more than 250 Jewish medalists, is a powerful account of the conflict between sport and politics.
Jews And The Olympic Games
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Author : Paul Yogi Mayer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Jews And The Olympic Games written by Paul Yogi Mayer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the last century young Jews, particularly in Central Europe, found that they had the new and exhilarating opportunity to give expression to their physical talents and energy. How they and their successors grasped it is the theme of this engaging book, the fruits of the author's lifelong research and enthusiasm. Even after the Holocaust, Jews were among the outstanding Olympians, and over 400 Jewish medallists from the first modern Games in Athens in 1896 to the Sydney Millennium Games. However, this is not merely a book of record and records, names and events. Yogi Mayer has drawn on his own memories as an athlete, coach, educator and sports journalist to create a compelling, illustrated eyewitness account. He has known many of the athletes who are featured in the book and he describes their personalities, virtues, weaknesses and, in some cases, tragic fates.
From The Ghetto To The Games
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Author : Andrew Handler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
From The Ghetto To The Games written by Andrew Handler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Documents the contribution of Hungarian Jews to sporting achievements in Hungary in the 19th-20th centuries. In the 19th century the Jew's interest in sports was part of a process of Magyarization and assimilation, despite antisemitism in Hungarian society. Successful Jewish athletes continued to face discrimination, malicious remarks, etc.
Foiled
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Author : Milly Mogulof
language : en
Publisher: RDR Books
Release Date : 2002
Foiled written by Milly Mogulof and has been published by RDR Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Arguably history's most famous woman fencer, named as one of the top 100 athletes of the century by Sports Illustrated, Helene Mayer won the gold for Germany in the 1928 Berlin Olympics. Eight years later, with America poised to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics over anti-Semitism, the Nazis brought Mayer home from self-imposed exile in California to be the token Jew on their team. This marvelous book is the story of a beautiful and talented young woman who tries to win back her citizenship by fencing for the Third Reich. The thought-provoking saga of the central figure in the 20th century's most dramatic sports controversy.
A Jewish Athlete Swimming Against Stereotype In 20th Century Europe
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Author : Helen Epstein
language : en
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Release Date : 2019-08-18
A Jewish Athlete Swimming Against Stereotype In 20th Century Europe written by Helen Epstein and has been published by Plunkett Lake Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This daughter's profile of Czechoslovak swimmer and water polo player Kurt Epstein (1904-1975) traces the history of Jewish athletes in Central Europe and provides a case study of one such life-long athlete. Epstein grew up a stone's throw from the Elbe River and began swimming before the First World War, when his town of Roudnice nad Labem was still part of Austria-Hungary. In high school, he became a competitive rower and swimmer, challenging prevailing stereotypes about Jews and becoming a leading Czechoslovak water polo player and swimming coach, representing his country at two Olympic Games, in 1928 and 1936. In addition to describing the cultural background of the Epstein family in the Bohemian countryside, the book examines Kurt Epstein's decision to participate in the 1936 Berlin "Nazi" Olympics, and follows him through a series of Nazi concentration camps back to Prague, where he was elected member of the Czechoslovak National Olympic Committee. After the Communist putsch of 1948, Epstein vowed to flee "in a swimsuit if necessary" and, at 44, emigrated to New York City where he became a cutter in the garment district, swam weekly at the St. George pool in Brooklyn, and served as Treasurer of The Association of Czechoslovak Sportsmen in Exile in the Western World.
The Deflympic Games And The Jews
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Author : Rafael Pinkhasov Pinchas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-10
The Deflympic Games And The Jews written by Rafael Pinkhasov Pinchas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-10 with Deaf athletes categories.
Do you know that there are 114 medal-winning Jewish athletes from 16 different countries who excelled at the Deaflympic Games in 18 various sports from 1928 and to now and who won a combined total of 266 medals, including 107 gold, 81 silver and 78 bronze, at both Summer and Winter Games? Do you know that an American athlete - a Jew - was the first athlete in the U.S. Deaf sports history to win a complete set of medals - a gold, a silver and a bronze - at one and same Games in 1957? Or do you know that a Jewish girl from Hungary was, at her age of 14, the youngest ever gold medal winner in table tennis in the history of the Deaflympic Games?Well, the reader will find answers to the foregoing questions in this book. In the book pages the reader will learn the backgrounds of 114 Games medal-winning Jewish athletes and see their accompanying photos. The book pages also contain significant and interesting information about the backgrounds of twenty Deaf sports personalities of Jewish origin from different countries of the world who contributed a great deal to the progress and well being of the Deaf sports world, in general, and the Deaflympic movement, in particular. Their photos are also presented in the book pages. The publication of this first ever and uniquely-themed book shall allow the readers to have clearer ideas about the fate of the Deaf and Jewish athletes, coaches and leaders, about their sporting exploits that have taken place in their lives, especially at a major and premier sporting event for the Deaf people - the Deaflympic Games.The book has 12 different topics and over 500 photos on its pages.
Hitler S Olympics
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Author : Anton Rippon
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2006-09-15
Hitler S Olympics written by Anton Rippon and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This “startlingly good and vividly illuminating book” sheds new light on the Fascist sports spectacle that transfixed the world (The Spectator). For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-Semitism and plans for territorial expansion, the Nazis exploited the Olympic ideal, dazzling visiting spectators and journalists alike with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany. In Hitler’s Olympics, Anton Rippon tells the story of those remarkable Games, the first to overtly use the Olympic festival for political purposes. His account, which is illustrated with almost 200 rare photographs of the event, looks at how the rise of the Nazis affected German sportsmen and women in the early 1930s. And it reveals how the rest of the world allowed the Berlin Olympics to go ahead despite the knowledge that Nazi Germany was a police state.
More Than Just Games
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Author : Richard Menkis
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2015-01-01
More Than Just Games written by Richard Menkis and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with History categories.
Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy. Should athletes and nations boycott the games to protest the Nazi regime? More Than Just Games is the history of Canada's involvement in the 1936 Olympics. It is the story of the Canadian Olympic officials and promoters who were convinced that national unity and pride demanded that Canadian athletes compete in the Olympics without regard for politics. It is the story of those Canadian athletes, mostly young and far more focused on sport than politics, who were eager to make family, friends, and country proud of their efforts on Canada's behalf. And, finally, it is the story of those Canadians who led an unsuccessful campaign to boycott the Olympics and deny Nazi Germany the propaganda coup of serving as an Olympic host. Written by two noted historians of Canadian Jewish history, Richard Menkis and Harold Troper, More than Just Games brings to life the collision of politics, patriotism, and the passion of sport on the eve of the Second World War.
The Nazi Olympics
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Author : Richard D. Mandell
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1971
The Nazi Olympics written by Richard D. Mandell and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This book is an expose of one of the most bizarre festivals in sport history. It provides portraits of key figures including Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens, Leni Riefenstahl, Helen Stephens, Kee Chung Sohn, and Avery Brundage. It also conveys the charade that reinforced and mobilized the hysterical patriotism of the German masses.