Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)

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It charts the cultural and intellectual history showing how the 'Muscle Jew' developed as a political symbol of national regeneration.

It is a book that any one interested in European thought from the s to the Holocaust and the founding of the state of Israel must read. It is a book of depth and breadth; one that reflects the inordinate strength of a discipline about how to flex its muscles without embarrassment. His book is an outcome of a serious, illuminating, and original dissertation project that successfully integrates its insights into a well-established field of research and contributes to an ongoing critical discussion on the origins and implications of the Zionist discourse.

The book is very well written, its arguments are clear and convincing. Presner's use of theory is useful but not exaggerated, and his historiographical methods are very productive' - Journal of Israeli History, September The Origins of Muscular Judaism 2.

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The Rhetoric of Regeneration: The Aesthetics of Regeneration: Lilien, and the Aesthetic State 4. The Gymnastics of Regeneration: The Anatomo-Politics of the Jewish Body 5. The Land of Regeneration: Seafaring Jews and the Zionist Colonial Imaginary 6.


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