Download full text
(3.358Mb)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57721-2
Exports for your reference manager
Depicting Hakoah: Images of a Zionist Sports Club in Interwar Vienna
Ansichten der Hakoah: Bilder eines zionistischen Sportvereins im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit
[journal article]
Abstract The SC Hakoah was not only Vienna’s most prominent "Jewish" (Zionist) sports club of the Interwar years, but also part of the Viennese popular sports culture. The media constantly covered the club and its members. A closer look at the sports reporting reveals that different genres of the media (text... view more
The SC Hakoah was not only Vienna’s most prominent "Jewish" (Zionist) sports club of the Interwar years, but also part of the Viennese popular sports culture. The media constantly covered the club and its members. A closer look at the sports reporting reveals that different genres of the media (texts, photographs, and caricatures) produced different meanings. In this way the depiction of the Hakoah Sports Club was part of a complex culture producing "Jewish difference" between the poles of Antisemitism and "Jewish Vienna." The analysis clearly demonstrates that the different "genres," i.e. texts, pictures, and caricatures, produced diverse messages to Viennese Jews: Their inclusion should be based on "assimilation," although it had to be clear that they always remained identifiable.... view less
Keywords
Vienna; sports; Austria; zionism; sports club; photography; cartoon; Judaism; peace time; image; soccer; Jew
Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics
Free Keywords
Jewish Sports; Interwar Vienna; Visual Culture of Sports; Jewishness; SC Hakoah
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 129-147
Journal
Historical Social Research, 43 (2018) 2
Issue topic
Visualities - Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.2.129-147
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed