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Todd M. Endelman

Todd M. Endelman is professor emeritus of history and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan. His most recent book is Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History (Princeton University Press, forthcoming).

Muscular Judaism

Muscular Judaism

Todd M. Endelman

The history of Jewish boxers such as Daniel Mendoza in England is as central to understanding the entry of Jews into European society as the better-known and much-researched history of Jewish salonnières and intellectuals in Berlin and Vienna.