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Jews and the Olympics

Cover of Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
Nonfiction
Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
Andrew Maraniss
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Nonfiction
Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August
Oliver Hilmes; Jefferson Chase, trans.
Cover of The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games
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The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games
Ron Kaplan
Cover of From Brooklyn to the Olympics: The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn University Track Coach Mel Rosen
Nonfiction
From Brooklyn to the Olympics: The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn University Track Coach Mel Rosen
Craig Darch
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Fiction
Max Baer and the Star of David
Jay Neugeboren
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Children's
The Berlin Boxing Club
Robert Sharenow
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Nonfiction
Judaism's Encounter with American Sports
Jeffrey S. Gurock
Cover of Emancipation Through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe
Nonfiction
Emancipation Through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe
Michael Brenner; Gideon Reuveni, eds.
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Abel Kiviat, National Champion: Twentieth-Century Track and Field and the Melting Pot
Alan S. Katchen
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Children's
Massacre in Munich: How Terrorists Changed the Olympics and the World
Don Nardo
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Jewish Sports Legends
Joseph Siegman
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Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything
Aly Raisman
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Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame
Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, eds.
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Time-out: Sports Stories as a Game Plan for Spiritual Success
Dov Moshe Lipman
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Baseball and Belonging
Ryan Lavarnway
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