Sports and the American Jew
edited by Steven A. Riess
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0815627610
DDC: 796.089924073
LCC: GV709.6
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-321) and index.
Sports and the American Jew /Steven A. Riess --Tough Jews. The Jewish
American boxing experience, 1890-1950 /Steven A. Riess --Jewish
American women, Jewish organizations, and sports, 1880-1940 /Linda
Borish --Jews and the making of American marathoning, 1896-1960
/Pamela Cooper --The rise of sport at a Jewish settlement house. The
Chicago Hebrew Institute, 1908-1921 /Gerald R. Gems --"Our crowd" at
play. The elite Jewish country club in the 1920s /Peter Levine --Hank
Greenberg. The Jewish American sports hero /William M. Simons
--Lester Harrison and the Rochester Royals, 1945-1957. A Jewish
entrepreneur in the NBA /Donald M. Fisher --Becoming American. Jewish
writers on the sporting life /Allen Guttmann --Eric Rolf Greenberg's
The Celebrant. The greatest Jewish American baseball novel /Eric
Solomon.
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