| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 337 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Sports and entertainment
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-321) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
Jewish athletes -- United States -- History.
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Jews -- Social life and customs.
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Sports -- Sociological aspects.
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| Added Author |
Riess, Steven A.
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| ISBN |
0815627610 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0815627548 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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