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Taylor has produced a unique and compelling history of Jewish sporting achievement. He reveals how Jewish athletes have had to combat not only their Olympic competitors, but also an enduring, often lethal, anti-Semitism. -- Colin Tatz, sports historian and author of Obstacle Race: Aborigines in Sport. Engrossing, innovative and original. Paul Taylor provides a fascinating glimpse into a neglected aspect of the modern Jewish experience; a window into a tumultuous and traumatic century. Through memoir, biography and careful reconstruction, he weaves a moving and dramatic tale, tracing the worlds and lives of Jewish Olympiads. Filled with bravery and pathos. Jewish fencers, athletes and swimmers straddle the stage. Inevitably Hitler's games and the Munich tragedy loom large. But Nordau's 'muscular Judaism' is at last realized. -- Milton Shain, Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Cape Town. Makes good use of the published sources and brings them to bear on the Jewish angle. -- Choice.

"""Taylor has produced a unique and compelling history of Jewish sporting achievement. He reveals how Jewish athletes have had to combat not only their Olympic competitors, but also an enduring, often lethal, anti-Semitism."" -- Colin Tatz, sports historian and author of Obstacle Race: Aborigines in Sport. ""Engrossing, innovative and original. Paul Taylor provides a fascinating glimpse into a neglected aspect of the modern Jewish experience; a window into a tumultuous and traumatic century. Through memoir, biography and careful reconstruction, he weaves a moving and dramatic tale, tracing the worlds and lives of Jewish Olympiads. Filled with bravery and pathos. Jewish fencers, athletes and swimmers straddle the stage. Inevitably Hitler's games and the Munich tragedy loom large. But Nordau's 'muscular Judaism' is at last realized."" -- Milton Shain, Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Cape Town. ""Makes good use of the published sources and brings them to bear on the Jewish angle."" -- Choice."

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After a career teaching Philosophy at universities in South Africa, contributing articles to academic journals (mainly on the philosophy of literature and the philosophy of mind), and writing commissioned pieces for Blackwells, Routledge and Oxford University Press, Paul Taylor has turned his hand to sports writing. This is the first of a number of planned writing projects.

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