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Jewish sports legends the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

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"In photos and short biographies, Jewish Sports Legends introduces famous, and not so famous, Jewish sports greats throughout history"-- Provided by publisher.

Title Jewish sports legends the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
Edition Fifth edition.
Publisher Lincoln, Nebraska University of Nebraska Press
Creation Date 2020
Notes Includes index.
Content 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.
Extent 1 online resource
Language English
National Library system number 997010709703605171
MARC RECORDS

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