Breathing in Manhattan (eBook)

Carola Speads - The German Jewish Gymnastics Instructor Who Brought Mindfulness to America

Christoph Ribbat (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2023
134 Seiten
Transcript Verlag
978-3-8394-6709-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1938 gymnastics instructor Carola Spitz escaped from Nazi Germany. In New York she turned into Carola Speads, revered teacher of mindfulness. She breathed with clients in her Central Park West studio until she was 97 years old. Now Christoph Ribbat combines her gripping biography with the histories of modern bodywork and breathing experiments. He illuminates the tension between self-help fads and 20th century catastrophes. Accessible and quirky, Breathing in Manhattan speaks to experts and non-experts alike: to readers of Jewish history, students of New York City, and to anyone attracted by - or skeptical of - the promises of mindfulness.

Autor

Christoph Ribbat is a professor of American studies at Universität Paderborn (Germany). He was a Humboldt Fellow at MIT and Boston University and a Fulbright Scholar at The Cooper Union, New York. His work has been translated into fourteen languages.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Edition Kulturwissenschaft
• Reihe/Serie: Edition Kulturwissenschaft
• Zusatzinfo: Dispersionsbindung, 8 SW-Abbildungen, 3 Farbabbildungen
• Verlagsort: Bielefeld
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Biography • Body • Breathing • Cultural History • Cultural Studies • Culture • History of the 20th Century • Jewish Studies • Life • Mindfulness • New York City • Society
• ISBN-10: 3-8394-6709-8 / 3839467098
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8394-6709-1 / 9783839467091