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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.
Price: $35.00
Pages: 134
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
04 July 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837667097
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
1. The Studio of Physical Re-Education 7
2. Wandervögel 27
3. Notice What Is 43
4. The List of Jewish Gymnastics Instructors 61
5. Flowers from Charlotte 83
6. Speads Work 97
Sources 113
Illustrations 117
Notes 119