Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

353 Pages·2020·485.001 MB·English

by  Joseph Siegman

J E W I S H
S P O R T S
LE G E N D S

J E W I S H
S P O R T S
L E G E N D S
The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
Fifth Edition
Joseph Siegman
Foreword by Mark Spitz
University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln
© 2020 by Joseph Siegman. All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Siegman, Joseph, author.
Title: Jewish sports legends: the International Jewish
Sports Hall of Fame / Joseph Siegman.
Description: Fifth edition. | Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, [2020] |
Summary: “In photos and short biographies, Jewish
Sports Legends introduces famous, and not so
famous, Jewish sports greats throughout history”
— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: lccn 2019045331
isbn 9781496201881 (paperback)
isbn 9781496222121 (pdf)
Subjects: lcsh: Jewish athletes— Biography. |
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
Classification: lcc gv697.a1 s4797 2020 |
ddc 796.0922 [B]— dc23
lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019045331
Set in Minion Pro by A. Shahan.
To Sam and Ellen Sporn and Syd Kronenthal,
who have so generously supported the
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

CONTENTS
Foreword by Mark Spitz xv
BAsketBAll
Preface xvii
Arnold “Red” Auerbach, United States 20
Acknowledgments xxi
Sam Balter, United States 20
Prologue: Muscular Judaism, by Uriel Simri xxiii
Louis Bender, United States 21
Senda Berenson, United States 22
Auto RAcing
Harry Boykoff, United States 22
Kenny Bernstein, United States 1 Tal Brody, Israel 23
Mauri Rose, United States 1 Lawrence Brown, United States 24
Jody Scheckter, South Africa 2 William Davidson, United States 25
Sheila Van Damm, Great Britain 2 Max Friedman, United States 26
Harry Glickman, United States 27
BAseBAll Julius Goldman, Canada 28
Morris “Moe” Berg, United States 4 Alexander Gomelsky, Soviet Union 28
Harry “the Horse” Danning, United States 5 Edward Gottlieb, United States 29
Barney Dreyfuss, United States 6 Baruch Hagai, Israel 30
Sidney Gordon, United States 7 Lester Harrison, United States 30
Shawn Green, United States 7 Nat Holman, United States 31
Henry Benjamin “Hank” Greenberg, William “Red” Holzman, United States 32
United States 8 Rudy LaRusso, United States 32
Kenneth Holtzman, United States 10 Harry Litwack, United States 33
Sanford “Sandy” Koufax, United States 10 1935– 36 Long Island University
Mike Lieberthal, United States 11 Basketball Team, United States 33
Marvin Miller, United States 12 Donna Geils Orender, United States 34
Charles “Buddy” Myer, United States 12 Orna Ostfeld, Israel 35
Lipman “Lip” Pike, United States 13 Philadelphia sphas, United States 35
Jimmie Reese (James Hymie Solomon), Maurice Podoloff, United States 37
United States 14 Leonard Rosenbluth, United States 38
Al “Flip” Rosen, United States 14 Mendy Rudolph, United States 39
Al Schacht, United States 15 Abe Saperstein, United States 40
Allan “Bud” Selig, United States 16 Adolph Schayes, United States 40
Harry Simmons, United States 17 Barney Sedran (Sedransky), United States 41
Steve Stone, United States 18 Morris “Moe” Spahn, United States 42
Albert Von Tilzer, United States 19 David Stern, United States 43
Kevin Youkilis, United States 19 Earl Strom, United States 44
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viii CONTENTS
Sidney Tanenbaum, United States 44 Ben Jeby, United States 63
David “Pep” Tobey, United States 44 Louis “Kid” Kaplan, United States 64
Max Zaslofsky, United States 45 Solly Krieger, United States 64
Benny Leonard (Benjamin Leiner),
BilliARds United States 65
Battling Levinsky (Barney Lebrowitz),
Michael Sigel, United States 46
United States 65
Harry Lewis (Besterman), United States 66
Bowling
Ted “Kid” Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff),
John M. Brunswick, United States 47
Great Britain 67
Marshall Holman, United States 48
Al McCoy (Rudolph), United States 68
Mortimer Lindsey, United States 48
Daniel Mendoza, Great Britain 68
Mark Roth, United States 49
Samuel Mosberg, United States 69
Louis Stein, United States 49 Bob Olin, United States 70
Sylvia Wene (Martin), United States 50 Victor “Young” Perez, Tunisia 70
Charley Phil Rosenberg (Charles Green),
Boxing
United States 70
Ray Arcel, United States 51 Max “Slapsie Maxie” Rosenbloom,
United States 72
Abe Attell, United States 51
Barney Ross (Beryl David Rosofsky),
Monte Attell, United States 52
United States 72
Maximilian Baer, United States 53
Isadore “Corporal Izzy” Schwartz,
Benny Bass, United States 53
United States 73
Jackie “Kid” Berg (Judah Bergman),
Eric Seelig, Germany 74
Great Britain 54
Al Singer, United States 74
Samuel Berger, United States 54
Jack Solomons, Great Britain 75
Jack Bernstein (John Dodick), United States 55
Lew Tendler, United States 76
Morris “Whitey” Bimstein, United States 55
Gyula Török, Hungary 77
Joe Choynski (“Chrysanthemum Joe”),
Irving Ungerman, Canada 77
United States 56
Matt Wells, Great Britain 78
Robert Cohen, France (Algeria) 57
Young Dutch Sam (Samuel Elias),
Dutch Sam (Samuel Elias), Great Britain 57
Great Britain 78
Leone Efrati, Italy 58
Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein), United States 58 cAnoeing
Charley Goldman, United States 59
Laszlo Fabian, Hungary 79
Abe Goldstein, United States 60
Myriam Fox- Jerusalmi, France 79
Reuven “Ruby” Goldstein, United States 60 Leonid Geishtor, Russia 79
Alphonse Halimi, France (Algeria) 61 Joe Jacobi, United States 80
Harry Harris, United States 62 Leon Rottman, Romania 81
Michael Jacobs, United States 62
CONTENTS ix
contRiButoRs Fencing
Jehoshua Alouf (Wolpiansky), Palestine/ Albert Axelrod, United States 101
Israel 82 Daniel Bukantz, United States 101
Robert Atlasz, Germany and Israel 82 Jeno Fuchs, Hungary 102
Baruch Bagg, Palestine/Israel 83 Tamas Gabor, Hungary 102
Richard Blum, Germany 83 Janos Garay, Hungary 103
Alfred Brull, Hungary 83 Oszkar Gerde, Hungary 103
Haskell Cohen, United States 84 Sandor Gombos, Hungary 104
Lajos Domeny- Deutsch, Hungary 84 Sada Jacobson, United States 104
Pierre Gildesgame, Great Britain 85 Allan Jay, Great Britain 105
Emmanuel Gill (Glickman), Palestine/Israel 85 Endre Kabos, Hungary 105
Chaim Glovinsky, Palestine/Israel 86 Grigori Kriss, Soviet Union 106
Arthur Abraham Gold, Great Britain 86 Alexandre Lippmann, France 106
Kenneth Gradon (Gradenwitz), Great Britain 86 Mark Midler, Soviet Union 107
Ludwig “Poppa” Guttmann, Germany Armand Mouyal, France 107
and Great Britain 87
Ivan Osiier, Denmark 108
Arthur Hanak, Israel 88
Attila Petschauer, Hungary 109
Joseph Inbar (Burstein), Palestine/Israel 88
Julia Jones- Pugliese, United States 109
Ferenc Kemeny (Kaufmann), Hungary 89
Mark Rakita, Soviet Union 110
Herman Lellewer, Germany 89
Sergei Sharikov, Soviet Union/Russia 111
Ferenc Mezo (Grunfeld), Hungary 90
David Tyshler, Soviet Union 111
Zvi Nishri (Orloff), Palestine/Israel 90
Eduard Vinokurov, Soviet Union/Kazakh SSR 112
Charles Ornstein, United States 91
Lajos Werkner, Hungary 112
Emmanuel Simon, Palestine/Israel 92
Uriel Simri, Palestine/Israel 92 Field Hockey
Artur Takac, Yugoslavia 93
Carina Benninga, Netherlands 113
Chaim Wein, Palestine/Israel 94
Joseph Yekutieli, Israel 95 FiguRe skA ting– ice dAncing
Aviezer Yellin, Israel 95
Ilia Averbukh, Russia 114
Paul Ziffren, United States 95
Ellen Burka, Canada 114
Harold O. Zimman, United States 96
Petra Burka, Canada 115
Alain Calmat, France 115
cRicket
Sasha Cohen, United States 116
Aron “Ali” Bacher, South Africa 98
Sarah Hughes, United States 116
Gennadi Karponosov, Soviet Union 117
equestRiAn
Lili Kronberger, Hungary 118
Margie Goldstein- Engle, United States 99 Emilia Rotter, Hungary 118
Robert Dover, United States 99 Louis Rubenstein, Canada 119