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Paperback A Jewish Athlete: Swimming Against Stereotype in 20th Century Europe Book

ISBN: 0961469676

ISBN13: 9780961469672

A Jewish Athlete: Swimming Against Stereotype in 20th Century Europe

This daughter's profile of Czechoslovak swimmer and water polo player Kurt Epstein (1904-1975) traces the history of Jewish athletes in Central Europe and provides a case study of one such life-long athlete. Epstein grew up a stone's throw from the Elbe River and began swimming before the First World War, when his town of Roudnice nad Labem was still part of Austria-Hungary. In high school, he became a competitive rower and swimmer, challenging prevailing...

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