Sport and British Jewish identity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2378635
AutoresJon Dart (0000-0002-6118-7118, Leeds Beckett University, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume56
Fascículo5
Páginas677-694
Data de publicação2021-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1012690220958624
OpenAlexW3089066873
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas24

This article examines the relationship between sport and Jewish identity. The experiences of Jewish people have rarely been considered in previous sport-related research which has typically focused on 'Black' and South Asian individuals, sports clubs, and organisations. Drawing on data generated from interviews ( n = 20) and focus groups ( n = 2) with individuals based in one British city, this article explores how their Jewish identity was informed, and shaped by, different sports activities and spaces. This study's participants were quick to correct the idea that sport was alien to Jewish culture and did not accept the stereotype that 'Jews don't play sport'. The limited historical research on sport and Jewish people and the ongoing debates around Jewish identity are noted before exploring the role of religion and the suggestion that Jewish participation in sport is affected by the Shabbat (sabbath). Participants discussed how sports clubs acted as spaces for the expression and re/affirmation of their Jewish identity, before they reflected on the threats posed to the wider Jewish community by secularism, assimilation, and antisemitism. The article concludes by discussing how the sporting experiences of the study's British Jewish participants compare with the experiences of individuals from other ethnic minority communities

Aesthetics · Antisemitism · Art · Ethnic group · Jewish identity · Judaism · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society