Breathing in Manhattan: Carola Speads - The German Jewish Gymnastics Instructor Who Brought Mindfulness to America

Christoph Ribbat

Published by transcript Verlag 2023

Breathing in Manhattan

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

Christoph Ribbat

Volume 287 in the series Edition Kulturwissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839467091

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About this book

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.

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
1. The Studio of Physical Re-Education Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2. Wandervögel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. Notice What Is Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4. The List of Jewish Gymnastics Instructors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
5. Flowers from Charlotte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
6. Speads Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 134
Keywords: Breathing; Mindfulness; Jewish Studies; New York City; Life; Culture; Society; Cultural History; History of the 20th Century; Body; Biography; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839467091