Colin is Visiting Professor in Politics and International Relations at Australian National University and the founding director of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Colin Tatz
By Colin Tatz
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Community The Secret Jewish History of Boxing
A version of this piece originally appeared in Plus61J. Boxing and I have a love-hate relationship. A keen tournament competitor as a kid, I was besotted with the fighters and wallowed in their stats, especially those of the Jewish boys. Later I shrank from the corruption, the sleaze and brutality of most of it. But…
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Community The Dark History of Jews And The Olympics
A version of this piece originally appeared in Plus61J. Jews and The Olympics have hardly been the best of friends, despite the disproportionately high Jewish tally of some 360 medals since the start of the Modern Games in 1896. Not out of a love of sport did Baron Pierre de Coubertin resurrect the ancient Olympics:…
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Community Is the Jewish Body Fit for Sports?
A version of this piece originally appeared in Plus61J. Jews can’t fight, fence, ride, run or swim. That was the conventional wisdom of earlier centuries. By contrast, some time in the 1930s, the Russian–Jewish writer Isaac Emannuilovich Babel, a one-time Cossack (in an administrative capacity) alerted his readers: ‘beware a Jew on horseback’. So which…
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