Ofer IdelsEmbodying the Revolution
The Hebrew Experience and the Globalization of Modern Sports in Interwar Palestine
OFER IDELS is the Jenny Belzberg Postdoctoral Fellow at Calgary University, Canada. He is the author of Zionism: Emotions, Language and Experience.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Teaching Nordau to Play Soccer: Gymnastics and Sports Before and
After World War
2 Competing in Hebrew: Revolutionary Language and the Sporting
Presence
3 “Keep Away from the Prima Donnas”: Hebrew Purpose and the
Athletic Body
4 “The Whole World Will Know Our Answer”: Sports,
Internationalism, and the Jewish Return to History
5 “We Have to Learn to Sacrifice Everything”: Militarism and the
Zionist Desire for a Useful Experience
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index