Judaism's Encounter with American Sports (The Modern Jewish Experience)

Judaism's Encounter with American Sports examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sports threatened religious identification and observance. What do Jews do when a society -- in this case, a team -- ""chooses them in,"" but demands commitments that clash with ancestral ties and practices?Jeffrey S. Gurock uses the experience of sports to illuminate an important mode of modern Jewish religious conflict and accommodation to America. He co