A fighting chance

Riess, Steven A.
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Title A fighting chance : Jewish-American boxing experience, 1890-1940 .
Original Library/publisher Sports and the American Jew. Ed. by Steven A. Riess. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998
Host Item American Jewish History 74,3 (1985) 223-254
Description Appeared also in "Sports and the American Jew" (1998)
Record created automatically from multi-article record # 000322515
Language English
National Library system number 990006312180705171
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