Resistive Play: Sports and the Emergence of Jewish Visibility in Contemporary Vienna
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In this article, the author argues that the current Jewish sports movement exemplifies and symbolizes a “new Jewish visibility” in Vienna’s sociocultural field. It is thus part and parcel of a larger recent transformation that has brought Jewish individuals, collectivities, and institutions into Austria’s public sphere. Drawing on his ethnographic research on postwar Austrian-Jewish culture, the author argues that sport represents a privileged site in this development through its construction of an affirmative public Jewish subjectivity, negotiated, in turn, in light of the social reality of a recently expanding Jewish community.
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24(3)
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232-250
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Link to article (paywalled), Resistive Play Sports and the Emergence of Jewish Visibility in Contemporary Vienna
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Resistive Play: Sports and the Emergence of Jewish Visibility in Contemporary Vienna. 2000: 232-250. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723500243002
