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Jewish sports legends the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
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- Summary
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"In photos and short biographies, Jewish Sports Legends introduces famous, and not so famous, Jewish sports greats throughout history"--
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- English
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- Fifth edition
- Lincoln, Nebraska University of Nebraska Press, 2020
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 9781496222121, 9781496201881, 1496201884, 1496222121
- OCLC
- on1182874362, on1182847498
- Includes index.
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Auto Racing -- Kenny Bernstein, United States -- Mauri Rose, United States -- Jody Scheckter, South Africa -- Sheila Van Damm, Great Britain -- Baseball -- Morris "Moe" Berg, United States -- Harry "the Horse" Danning, United States -- Barney Dreyfuss, United States -- Sidney Gordon, United States -- Shawn Green, United States -- Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg, United States -- Kenneth Holtzman, United States -- Sanford "Sandy" Koufax, United States -- Mike Lieberthal, United States -- Marvin Miller, United States -- Charles "Buddy" Myer, United States -- Lipman "Lip" Pike, United States -- Jimmie Reese (James Hymie Solomon), United States -- Al "Flip" Rosen, United States -- Al Schacht, United States -- Allan "Bud" Selig, United States -- Harry Simmons, United States -- Steve Stone, United States -- Albert Von Tilzer, United States -- Kevin Youkilis, United States -- Basketball -- Arnold "Red" Auerbach, United States -- Sam Balter, United States -- Louis Bender, United States -- Senda Berenson, United States -- Harry Boykoff, United States -- Tal Brody, Israel -- Lawrence Brown, United States -- William Davidson, United States -- Max Friedman, United States -- Harry Glickman, United States -- Julius Goldman, Canada -- Alexander Gomelsky, Soviet Union -- Edward Gottlieb, United States -- Baruch Hagai, Israel -- Lester Harrison, United States -- Nat Holman, United States -- William "Red" Holzman, United States -- Rudy LaRusso, United States -- Harry Litwack, United States -- 1935-36 Long Island University Basketball Team, United States -- Donna Geils Orender, United States -- Orna Ostfeld, Israel -- Philadelphia SPHAs, United States -- Maurice Podoloff, United States -- Leonard Rosenbluth, United States -- Mendy Rudolph, United States
- Abe Saperstein, United States -- Adolph Schayes, United States -- Barney Sedran (Sedransky), United States -- Morris "Moe" Spahn, United States -- David Stern, United States -- Earl Strom, United States -- Sidney Tanenbaum, United States -- David "Pep" Tobey, United States -- Max Zaslofsky, United States -- Billiards -- Michael Sigel, United States -- Bowling -- John M. Brunswick, United States -- Marshall Holman, United States -- Mortimer Lindsey, United States -- Mark Roth, United States -- Louis Stein, United States -- Sylvia Wene (Martin), United States -- Boxing -- Ray Arcel, United States -- Abe Attell, United States -- Monte Attell, United States -- Maximilian Baer, United States -- Benny Bass, United States -- Jackie "Kid" Berg (Judah Bergman), Great Britain -- Samuel Berger, United States -- Jack Bernstein (John Dodick), United States -- Morris "Whitey" Bimstein, United States -- Joe Choynski ("Chrysanthemum Joe"), United States -- Robert Cohen, France (Algeria) -- Dutch Sam (Samuel Elias), Great Britain -- Leone Efrati, Italy -- Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein), United States -- Charley Goldman, United States -- Abe Goldstein, United States -- Reuven "Ruby" Goldstein, United States -- Alphonse Halimi, France (Algeria) -- Harry Harris, United States -- Michael Jacobs, United States -- Ben Jeby, United States -- Louis "Kid" Kaplan, United States -- Solly Krieger, United States -- Benny Leonard (Benjamin Leiner), United States -- Battling Levinsky (Barney Lebrowitz), United States -- Harry Lewis (Besterman), United States -- Ted "Kid" Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff), Great Britain -- Al McCoy (Rudolph), United States -- Daniel Mendoza, Great Britain -- Samuel Mosberg, United States -- Bob Olin, United States -- Victor "Young" Perez, Tunisia -- Charley Phil Rosenberg (Charles Green), United States -- Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, United States
- Barney Ross (Beryl David Rosofsky), United States -- Isadore "Corporal Izzy" Schwartz, United States -- Eric Seelig, Germany -- Al Singer, United States -- Jack Solomons, Great Britain -- Lew Tendler, United States -- Gyula Török, Hungary -- Irving Ungerman, Canada -- Matt Wells, Great Britain -- Young Dutch Sam (Samuel Elias), Great Britain -- Canoeing -- Laszlo Fabian, Hungary -- Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, France -- Leonid Geishtor, Russia -- Joe Jacobi, United States -- Leon Rottman, Romania -- Contributors -- Jehoshua Alouf (Wolpiansky), Palestine/Israel -- Robert Atlasz, Germany and Israel -- Baruch Bagg, Palestine/Israel -- Richard Blum, Germany -- Alfred Brull, Hungary -- Haskell Cohen, United States -- Lajos Domeny-Deutsch, Hungary -- Pierre Gildesgame, Great Britain -- Emmanuel Gill (Glickman), Palestine/Israel -- Chaim Glovinsky, Palestine/Israel -- Arthur Abraham Gold, Great Britain -- Kenneth Gradon (Gradenwitz), Great Britain -- Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann, Germany and Great Britain -- Arthur Hanak, Israel -- Joseph Inbar (Burstein), Palestine/Israel -- Ferenc Kemeny (Kaufmann), Hungary -- Herman Lellewer, Germany -- Ferenc Mezo (Grunfeld), Hungary -- Zvi Nishri (Orloff), Palestine/Israel -- Charles Ornstein, United States -- Emmanuel Simon, Palestine/Israel -- Uriel Simri, Palestine/Israel -- Artur Takac, Yugoslavia -- Chaim Wein, Palestine/Israel -- Joseph Yekutieli, Israel -- Aviezer Yellin, Israel -- Paul Ziffren, United States -- Harold O. Zimman, United States -- Cricket -- Aron "Ali" Bacher, South Africa -- Equestrian -- Margie Goldstein-Engle, United States -- Robert Dover, United States -- Fencing -- Albert Axelrod, United States -- Daniel Bukantz, United States -- Jeno Fuchs, Hungary -- Tamas Gabor, Hungary -- Janos Garay, Hungary -- Oszkar Gerde, Hungary -- Sandor Gombos, Hungary -- Sada Jacobson, United States
- Allan Jay, Great Britain -- Endre Kabos, Hungary -- Grigori Kriss, Soviet Union -- Alexandre Lippmann, France -- Mark Midler, Soviet Union -- Armand Mouyal, France -- Ivan Osiier, Denmark -- Attila Petschauer, Hungary -- Julia Jones-Pugliese, United States -- Mark Rakita, Soviet Union -- Sergei Sharikov, Soviet Union/Russia -- David Tyshler, Soviet Union -- Eduard Vinokurov, Soviet Union/Kazakh SSR -- Lajos Werkner, Hungary -- Field Hockey -- Carina Benninga, Netherlands -- Figure Skating-Ice Dancing -- Ilia Averbukh, Russia -- Ellen Burka, Canada -- Petra Burka, Canada -- Alain Calmat, France -- Sasha Cohen, United States -- Sarah Hughes, United States -- Gennadi Karponosov, Soviet Union -- Lili Kronberger, Hungary -- Emilia Rotter, Hungary -- Louis Rubenstein, Canada -- Irina Slutskaya, Russia -- Laszlo Szollas, Hungary -- Football -- Joseph Alexander, United States -- Lyle Alzado, United States -- Harris Barton, United States -- Arthur "Bluey" Bluethenthal, United States -- Al Davis, United States -- Benny Friedman, United States -- Sid Gillman, United States -- Marshall "Biggie" Goldberg, United States -- Charles "Buckets" Goldenberg, United States -- Sid Halter, Canada -- Sigmund Harris, United States -- Lew Hayman, Canada -- Marv Levy, United States -- Benny Lom, United States -- Sidney Luckman, United States -- Joseph Magidsohn, United States -- Ron Mix, United States -- Edward Newman, United States -- Harry Newman, United States -- Golf -- Amy Alcott, United States -- Herman Barron, United States -- Gymnastics -- Valeri Belenki, Azerbaijan and Germany -- Alfred Flatow, Germany -- Gustav Felix Flatow, Germany -- Mitchell Gaylord, United States -- Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet Union -- Abie Grossfeld, United States -- George Gulack, United States -- Agnes Keleti (Klein), Hungary -- Tatiana Lysenko, Soviet Union/Ukraine
- Netherlands 1928 Women's Olympic Gymnasts -- Alexandra Raisman, United States -- Yelena Shushuvona, Soviet Union -- Kerri Strug, United States -- Galina Urbanovich, Soviet Union -- Handball -- Victor Hershkowitz, United States -- James Jacobs, United States -- Fred Lewis, United States -- Steve Sandler, United States -- Horse Racing -- Walter Blum, United States -- Robert Frankel, United States -- William Harmatz, United States -- Hirsch Jacobs, United States -- Walter Miller, United States -- Georges Stern, France -- Ice Hockey -- Gary Bettman, United States -- Hyman "Hy" Buller, Canada -- Nikolay Epshtein, Soviet Union -- Cecil Hart, Canada -- Ben Hatskin, Canada -- Alfred Kuchevsky, Soviet Union/Russia -- Mathieu Schneider, United States -- Judo -- Yael Arad, Israel -- Rena "Rusty" Kanokogi (Glickman), United States -- Daniela Krukower, Argentina -- Lacrosse -- Victor Ross, United States -- Media -- Jesse Abramson, United States -- Maury Allen, United States -- Mel Allen (Melvin Allen Israel), United States -- Ira Berkow, United States -- Simon Burick, United States -- Murray Chass, United States -- Howard Cosell (Cohen), United States -- Dan Daniel (Margowitz), United States -- Massimo Della Pergola, Italy -- Al Munro Elias, United States -- Red Fisher, Canada -- Nat Fleischer, United States -- Marty Glickman, United States -- Al Greenberg, United States -- Bud Greenspan, United States -- Jerome Holtzman, United States -- Jerry Izenberg, United States -- Hank Kaplan, United States -- Max Kase, United States -- Leonard Koppett, United States -- A. J. Liebling, United States -- Willy Meisl, Germany and Great Britain -- Barney Nagler, United States -- Ben Olan, United States -- Murray Olderman, United States -- Bernard Postal, United States -- Shirley Povich, United States -- Joe Reichler, United States -- Harold U. Ribalow, United States
- Ed Sabol, United States