Jack Solomons Tells All

Author : Jack Solomons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Boxing
ISBN : NYPL:33433059253140

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Jack Solomons Tells All by Jack Solomons Pdf

Author : David Dee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349952380

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The ‘Estranged’ Generation? Social and Generational Change in Interwar British Jewry by David Dee Pdf

This book focuses on the nature and extent of social change, integration and identity transformation within the Jewish community of Britain during the interwar years. It probes the notion – widely articulated by Jewish communal leaders at this time – that the immigrant second generation (i.e. British and foreign-born children of Russian and Eastern European Jews who migrated to Britain in the late Victorian era up to the First World War) had ‘estranged’ themselves from their Jewishness, Jewish elders and peers and were fast assimilating into the British mainstream.The volume analyses the second generation’s developing outlooks and behavioural trends in a variety of environments, effectively charting the changes and continuities present therein. As a whole, the book sheds light on the varied ways in which this group developed new identities that both drew from and reflected their Jewish and British heritage.

Author : Matthew Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000071368

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Sport and the Home Front by Matthew Taylor Pdf

Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment of sport in government policy, media representations and the everyday lives of wartime citizens. Acknowledged as a core component of British culture, sport was also frequently criticised, marginalised and downplayed, existing in a constant state of tension between notions of normality and exceptionality, routine and disruption, the everyday and the extraordinary. The author argues that sport played an important, yet hitherto neglected, role in maintaining the morale of the British people and providing a reassuring sense of familiarity at a time of mass anxiety and threat. Through the conflict, sport became increasingly regarded as characteristic of Britishness; a symbol of the ‘ordinary’ everyday lives in defence of which the war was being fought. Utilised to support the welfare of war workers, the entertainment of service personnel at home and abroad and the character formation of schoolchildren and young citizens, sport permeated wartime culture, contributing to new ways in which the British imagined the past, present and future. Using a wide range of personal and public records – from diary writing and club minute books to government archives – this book breaks new ground in both the history of the British home front and the history of sport.

Author : Rónán Mac Con Iomaire
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538110614

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The Man Who Was Never Knocked Down by Rónán Mac Con Iomaire Pdf

Seán Mannion was once ranked the #1 US light middleweight boxer and in 1984 he fought Mike McCallum for the world title, only to fall just short of his dreams. Featuring exclusive interviews with Mannion, this book provides an inside perspective on his boxing career, 1980s Boston, and his present search for purpose outside the ring. In 1977, looking to fulfill a dream as a pro boxer, 17-year-old Seán Mannion flew into Boston from Ireland, straight into a world of gun smugglers, drug dealers, and the world’s best boxers. By 1983, Mannion was ranked the number one US light middleweight boxer. In The Man Who Was Never Knocked Down: The Life of Boxer Seán Mannion, Rónán Mac Con Iomaire recounts Mannion’s struggles and triumphs in and out of the ring. Despite dubious management and the attention of the Boston Irish Mafia, Mannion quickly climbed his way up from the lower rungs of one of the most competitive weight divisions in boxing history. This biography is more than a boxing story; it’s a personal story that also intersects with notorious crime figures, world-class fighters, and several pivotal moments in history. Featuring the likes of Micky Ward, Pat Nee, Marty Walsh, and Kevin Cullen, The Man Who Was Never Knocked Down is provides an inside perspective on the boxer, the fighting culture of his era, and on 1980s South Boston.

Author : Todd M. Endelman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520935662

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The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000 by Todd M. Endelman Pdf

In Todd Endelman's spare and elegant narrative, the history of British Jewry in the modern period is characterized by a curious mixture of prominence and inconspicuousness. British Jews have been central to the unfolding of key political events of the modern period, especially the establishment of the State of Israel, but inconspicuous in shaping the character and outlook of modern Jewry. Their story, less dramatic perhaps than that of other Jewish communities, is no less deserving of this comprehensive and finely balanced analytical account. Even though Jews were never completely absent from Britain after the expulsion of 1290, it was not until the mid- seventeenth century that a permanent community took root. Endelman devotes chapters to the resettlement; to the integration and acculturation that took place, more intensively than in other European states, during the eighteenth century; to the remarkable economic transformation of Anglo-Jewry between 1800 and 1870; to the tide of immigration from Eastern Europe between 1870 and 1914 and the emergence of unprecedented hostility to Jews; to the effects of World War I and the turbulent events up to and including the Holocaust; and to the contradictory currents propelling Jewish life in Britain from 1948 to the end of the twentieth century. We discover not only the many ways in which the Anglo-Jewish experience was unique but also what it had in common with those of other Western Jewish communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : MINN:31951001979950C

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The Bookseller by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UGA:32108057641972

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New Statesman and Nation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Jews
ISBN : NYPL:33433075412175

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The Jewish Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : American literature
ISBN : OSU:32435020110607

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The Cumulative Book Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jackie Turpin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780577821

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Battling Jack Turpin by Jackie Turpin Pdf

Now in his 80th year, 'Battling' Jack Turpin is the last surviving member of his generation of Britain's best-known and best-loved boxing family. Jack's father, Lionel Turpin, came from British Guiana to volunteer for the British Army during the Great War. He was wounded on the battlefields of France and invalided to Warwick, the first black man to settle in the area. Lionel married a local girl but his early death left her struggling to raise their three sons and two daughters in pre-Welfare State England. As young men, the excitement and gladiatorial glamour of the ring lured Jack and his brothers into professional boxing. From a home-made backstreet gymnasium, they punched their way into the record books and into the hearts of the British people. Battling Jack is a wonderfully narrated account of the life and times of a remarkable man who was once Britain's busiest featherweight. It is also the history of the beginnings of a black presence in British boxing. Turpin offers us a ringside seat at heroic battles and comic encounters. He takes us behind the scenes of a scandal that rocked the sporting world and into his confidence about the mystery that surrounds his younger brother's death. Jack Turpin has out-stared ignorance and prejudice, tasted triumph and celebrity, and endured hardship and tragedy. Heart-rending, raw, honest and funny, his is a story that had to be told.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : American literature
ISBN : PSU:000052000553

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Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : English imprints
ISBN : UIUC:30112107876606

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General Catalogue of Printed Books by British Museum. Department of Printed Books Pdf

Author : British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030015570957

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General catalogue of printed books by British museum. Dept. of printed books Pdf

Author : Sampson Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B230586

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The English Catalogue of Books [annual] by Sampson Low Pdf

Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B230581

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The English Catalogue of Books [annual]. by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 1898- include a directory of publishers.