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Pam Yenko
Creighton University
Creighton Hall 333
2500 California Street
Omaha, NE 68178
(402) 280-2303
Sunday, October 24 and Monday October 25, 2010
Nathan Abrams Bangor University, Wales |
"The Jew in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics on Film" |
Rebecca Alpert Temple University
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"Who Is That Masked Man? Buster Haywood and Black Baseball's Invisible Jews" |
Linda J. Borish Western Michigan University | "Jewish Women in the American Gym: Basketball, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Early Twentieth Century" |
Jeffrey Gurock Yeshiva University
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"American Jewry's Contemporary Scoreboard: Home and Away" |
Mihály Kálmán Harvard University | "Cutting Their Way to Success: Hungarian Jewish Sportsmen at the Olympic Games, 1928-1936" |
William Kornblum Graduate Center, City University of New York
with Erin Sodmaik, and Philllip Oberlander | "Grappling with Ghosts: Jewish Wrestlers and Antisemitism" |
David J. Leonard Washington State University
| "A Global Game: Omri Casspi and the Future of Jewish Ballers"
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Steven Riekes Omaha, Nebraska
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"Is Life a Game? Athletic Competition as a Metaphor for the Meaning of Life"
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Steven A. Riess Northwestern Illinois University
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"Antisemitism and Sport in Central Europe and the United States, c. 1870-1932"
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Danny Rosenberg Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada | "The Jewish Athlete of Faith: On the Limits of Sport" |
Ori Z. Soltes Georgetown University | "From Benny Leonard to Abi Olajuwon: Jews, Muslims, Evangelicals and the Evolving Challenges of Being an American Athlete" |
Nina Spiegel American University
| "Sporting a Nation: The Origins of the Maccabiah Games"
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Loren R. Spielman
| "Playing Roman in Jerusalem"
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