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During the interwar years, competitive sport become a global phenomenon, in which competitive games were organized by international bodies and professional athletes performed as (inter)national icons of health, beauty, and social success. The following article explores the nature of this transnational change in one particular place: the Jewish community of Mandate Palestine. By focusing primarily on two Zionist athletic delegations (male and female), the paper illustrates the particular way in which the Hebrew worldview positioned athletic performance within its emerging national project. Specifically, it highlights the way in which, unlike the athletes of many other societies at the time, the Hebrew athlete was  not  embraced as a national symbol. In incorporating the story of the Hebrew athlete’s marginalization, the article advances a necessary (re)examination of “big” Zionist phrases - like “new Jew” or “Muscular Judaism” - not as mere clichés, but in their historical context, as powerful reflections through which a specific group of people perceived themselves and their bodies.

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How to lose gracefully in an internationally selfish world: gender, the “New Jew” and the underestimation of athletic performance in interwar Palestine