Muscular Judaism : the Jewish body and the politics of regenerati on /
Todd Samuel Presner.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- xxiv, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Routledge Jewish studies series .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-265) and index.
The origins of muscular Judaism -- The rhetoric of regeneration : "c lear heads, solid stomachs, and hard muscles" -- The aesthetics of rege neration : Martin Buber, E.M. Lilien, and the aesthetic state -- The gy mnastics of regeneration : the anatomo-politics of the Jewish body -- - - The land of regeneration : seafaring Jews and the Zionist colonial im aginary -- Soldiers of regeneration : the military might of old-new Mac cabees and the Great War.