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Sports

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Chil­dren’s
Back­field Boys: A Foot­ball Mys­tery in Black and White
John Feinstein
Video

30 Days 30 Authors: Adam Greenberg

Adam Green­berg
November 16, 2017
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Non­fic­tion
Get Up: The Art of Perseverance
Adam Green­berg
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Chil­dren’s
The Bicy­cle Spy
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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Non­fic­tion
The Are­na
Rafi Kohan
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Non­fic­tion
When Bas­ket­ball Was Jewish
Dou­glas Stark
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Non­fic­tion
Eat My Schwartz
Geoff and Mitch Schwartz, with Seth Kaufman
Essay

The So-Called Rules of Lan­guage, Lit­er­a­ture, and Baseball

Richard Michel­son
February 20, 2017
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Max Baer and Bar­ney Ross: Jew­ish Heroes of Boxing
Jeffrey Sussman
Essay

Ben­ny Leonard: The Gold­en Stan­dard for a Gold­en Age

Ear­li­er this week, Mike Sil­ver intro­duced read­ers to boxing’s for­got­ten Jew­ish cham­pi­ons of the ear­ly twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry fea­tured in Stars in the Ring: Jew­ish…
Mike Sil­ver
May 5, 2016
Essay

In the Clear­ing Stands a (Jew­ish) Boxer

Mike Sil­ver is a box­ing his­to­ri­an whose sec­ond book, Stars in the Ring: Jew­ish Cham­pi­ons in the Gold­en Age of Box­ing: A Pho­to­graph­ic His­to­ry, comes out…
Mike Sil­ver
May 3, 2016
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Non­fic­tion
On the Ori­gins of Sports
Gary Belsky and Neil Fine
Essay

Max Baer, Real and Imagined

Ear­li­er this week, Jay Neuge­boren shared his per­son­al list of the Jew­ish sports heroes that made him feel more Amer­i­can. Jay is guest blog­ging all week as part of the…
Jay Neuge­boren
March 31, 2016
Essay

My Jew­ish Heroes

With the recent release of his lat­est nov­el, Max Baer and the Star of David, Jay Neuge­boren is guest blog­ging all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series here on The…
Jay Neuge­boren
March 28, 2016
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Fic­tion
Max Baer and the Star of David
Jay Neuge­boren
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Mus­cle Beach

Excerpt­ed from On the Move: A Life by Oliv­er Sacks.When I final­ly made it to New York in June of 1961, I bor­rowed mon­ey from a cousin and bought…
Oliv­er Sacks
August 30, 2015
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