Description

Book Synopsis
In photos and short biographies, Jewish Sports Legends introduces famous, and not so famous, Jewish sports greats throughout history.


Trade Review
“As a piece of reference material it is a fine accomplishment. It’s exhaustive research into a myriad of sports, and the accompanying biographies and pictures are done first class. . . . It is an education.”—Los Angeles Times
“The impressive achievements of Jews in sports are well documented in this encyclopedic reference volume. . . . A first-rate account of Jews in sports since the end of the nineteenth century.”—Jerusalem Post
“Any sports enthusiast, armchair or otherwise, will find this book a fascinating read. This is indeed a keepsake to read and hold for many years for those interested in sports of all ages.”—National Jewish Post and Opinion
“It is the ultimate book for the serious sports fan.”—Jewish News
“Jewish stars shine! The book should put to rest the notion that there are few great Jewish athletes. The book profiles the nearly 250 members of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.”—Washington Jewish Week
“Libraries with a strong emphasis on sports collections may want to add this title to their collection.”—American Reference Books Annual
“This encyclopedic and lavishly illustrated volume covers a dizzying array of sports. . . . I was amazed!”—Canadian Jewish News

Table of Contents
Foreword by Mark Spitz
Preface by Joseph M. Siegman
Acknowledgements
Prologue by Dr. Uriel Sirnri

1. AUTO RACING
Kenny Bernstein, United States
Mauri Rose, United States
Jody Scheckter, South Africa
Sheliah Van Damm, Great Britain

2. BASEBALL
Moe Berg, United States
Harry Danning, United States
Barney Dreyfuss, United States
Sidney Gordon, United States
Shawn Green, United States
Henry "Hank" Greenberg, United States
Ken Holtzman, United States
Sanford "Sandy" Koufax, United States
Mike Lieberthal, United States
Marvin Miller, United States
Charles "Buddy" Myer, United States
Lipman Pike, United States
Jimmie Reese, United States
Al "Flip" Rosen, United States
Al Schacht, United States
Allan “Bud” Selig, United States
Harry Simmons, Unaited States
Steve Stone, United States
Albert Von Tilzer, United States
Kevin Youkilis, United States

3. 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 “Bill” Davidson, United States
Max Friedman, United States
Harry Glickman, United States
Julius Goldman, United States
Alexander Gomelsky, Soviet Union
Edward Gottlieb, United States
Baruch Hagai, Israel
Lester Harrison, United States
Nat Holman, United States
William "Red" Holzrnan, United States
Rudy LaRusso, United States
Harry Litwack, United States
1935-1936 Long Island University Basketball Team
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 "Dolph" Schayes, United States
Barney Sedran, 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

4. BILLIARDS
Arthur Ruben, United States
Michael Sigel, United States

5. BOWLING
John Brunswick, United States
Marshall Holman, United States
Mortimer “Mort” Lindsey, United States
Mark Roth, United States
Louis Stein, United States
Sylvia Wene (Martin), United States

6. BOXING
Ray Arcel, United States
Abe Attell, United States
Monte Attell, United States
Max Baer, United States
Benny Bass, United States
Jackie “Kid” Berg, Great Britain
Samuel Berger, United States
Jack Bernstein, United States
Morris “Whitey” Bimstein
Joe Choynski, United States
Robert Cohen, France (Algeria)
Dutch Sam (Samuel Elias), Great Britain
Leone Efrati, Italy
Jackie Fields, United States
Charley Goldman, United States
Abe Goldstein, United States
Reuven “Ruby” Goldstein, United States
Alphonse Halimi, France (Algeria)
Harry Harris, United States
Ben Jeby, United States
Mike Jacobs, United States
Louis "Kid" Kaplan, United States
Solly Krieger, United States
Benny Leonard, United States
Battling Levinsky, United States
Harry Lewis, United States
Ted "Kid" Lewis, Great Britain
Al McCoy, United States
Daniel Mendoza, Great Britain
Samuel Mosberg, United States
Bob Olin, United States
Victor "Young" Perez, Tunisia
Charley Phil Rosenberg, United States
Maxie Rosenbloom, United States
Barney Ross, United States
Corporal Izzy Schwartz, United States
Eric Seelig, Germany
Al Singer, United States
Jack Solomons, Great Britain
Lew Tendler, United States
Gyula Torok, Hungary
Irving Underman, Canada
Matt Wells, Great Britain
Young Dutch Sam, Great Britain

7. CANOEING
Leonid Geishtor, Russia
Myriam Fox Jerusalmi, France

8. CONTRIBUTORS
Jehoshua Alouf, Israel
Robert Atlasz, Germany/Israel
Baruch Bagg, Israel
Richard Blum, Germany
Alfred Brull, Hungary
Haskell Cohen, United States
Lajor Domeny-Deutsch, Hungary
Pierre Gildesgame, Great Britain
Emmanuel Gill, Israel
Chaim Glovinsky, Israel
Arthur Abraham Gold, Great Britain
Kenneth Gradon, Great Britain
Sir Ludwig Guttmann, Germany/Great Britain
Arthur Hanak, Israel
Ben Hatskin, Canada
Joseph Inbar, Israel
Ferenc Kemeny, Hungary
Dr. Herman Lellewer, Germany
Ferenc Mezo, Hungary
Zvi Nishri, Israel
Charles Ornstein, Unted States
Emmanuel Simon, Israel
Dr. Uriel Simri, Israel
Arthur Takac, Yugoslavia
Chaim Wein, Israel
Joseph Yekutieli, Israel
Aviezer Yellin, Israel
Paul Ziffren, United States
Harold O. Zimman

9. CRICKET
Aron "Ali" Bacher, South Africa

10. EQUESTRIAN
Margie Goldstein Engle, United States
Robert Dover, United States

11. FENCING
Albert Axelrod, United States
Daniel Bukants, 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
Yakov Rylsky, Soviet Union
Sergi Sharikov, Russia
David Tyshler, Soviet Union
Eduard Vinokurov, Soviet Union
Lajos Werkner, Hungary

12. FIELD HOCKEY
Carina Benninga, Netherlands

13. FIGURE SKATING / ICE DANCING
Ilia Avenrbukh, Russia
Ellen Burka, Canada
Petra Burka, Canada
Alain Calmat, France
Sasha Cohen, United States
Sarah Hughes, United States
Gennadi Karponosov, Soviet Union
Lily Kronberger, Hungary
Emilia Rotter, Hungary
Louis Rubenstein, Canada
Irina Slutskaya, Russia
Laszlo, Szollas, Hungary

14. 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 Goldberg, United States
Charles “Buckets” Goldenberg, United States
Sid Halter, Canada
Sigmund “Sig” Harris, United States
Lew Hayman, Canada
Mark Levyu, United States
Benny Lom, United States
Sid Luckman, United States
Joseph Magidsohn, United States
Ron Mix, United States
Edward Newman, United States
Harry Newman, United States

15. GOLF
Amy Alcott, United States
Herman Barron, United States

16. GYMNASTICS
Valeri Belenki, Azerbaijan/Germany
Alfred Flatow, Germany
Gustav Felix Flatow, Germany
Mitch Gaylord, United States
Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet Union
Abie Grossfeld, United States
George Gulack, United States
Agnes Keleti, Hungary
Tatiana Lysenko, Soviet Union/Ukraine
Netherlands’1928 Women’s Olympic Champions
Alexandra “Aly” Raisman, United States
Yelena Shushuvona, Soviet Union
Kerri Strug, United States
Galina Urbanovich, Soviet Union

17. HANDBALL
Vic Hershkowitz, United States
Jimmy Jacobs, United States
Fred Lewis, United States
Steve Sandler, United States

18. HORSE RACING
Walter Blum, United States
Robert “Bobby” Frankel, United States
William “Willie” Harmatz, United States
Hirsch Jacobs, United States
Walter Miller, United States
Georges Stern, France

19. ICE HOCKEY
Garry Bettman, United States
Hyman “Hy” Buller, Canada
Nikolay Epshtein, Soviet Union
Cecil "Cece" Hart, Canada
Alfred Kuchevsky, Soviet Union
Mathieu Schneider, United States

20. JUDO
Yael Arad, Israel
Rena Kanokogi (Rusty Glickman)
Daniela Krukower, Argentina

21. LACROSSE
Victor Ross, United States

22. MEDIA
Jesse Abramson, United States
Maury Allen, United States
Mel Allen, United States
Ira Berkow, United States
Simon “Si” Burick, United States
Murray Chass, United States
Howard Cosell, United States
Dan Daniel, United States
Massimo Della Pergola, Italy
Al Munro Elias, United States
Red Fisher, United States
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 & 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 Ribalow, United States
Ed Sabol, United States
Dick Schapp, United States
Jesse Silver, United States
Roy Silver, United States
Bill Stern, United States
Gyorgy Szepesi (Friedlander), Hungary
Sam Taub, United States

23. RACQUETBALL
Sheerman Greenfeld, Canada
Marty Hogan, United States

24. ROWING
Nathan Cohen, New Zealand
Laszlo Fabian, Hungary
Joe Jacobi, United States
Allen Rosenberg, United States
Leon Rottman, Romania
Donald Spero, United States

25. RUGBY
Aaron “Okey” Geffen O”The Boot”), South Africa
Jonathan Kaplan, South Africa
Sydney Nomis, South Africa
Wilf Rosenberg, South Africa
Albert Rosenfeld, Great Britain/Australia
Joel Stransky, South Africa

26. SAILING
Jo Aleh, New Zealand
Zephania Carmal, Israel
Gal Fridman, Israel
Lee Korsitz, Israel
Lydia Lazarov, Israel
Walentin Mankin, Soviet Union

27. SOCCER
Arthur Baar, Austria
Jozsef Braun, Hungary
Bela Guttmann, Hungary
Hakoah.Vienna Club, Austria
Kurt Lamm, United States
Gyula Mandi, Hungary
Hugo Meisl, Austria

28. SOFTBALL
Harry “Coon” Rosen, United States

29. SPEED SKATING
Irving Jaffee, United States

30. SURFING
Shaun Tomson, South Africa

31. SWIMMING
William Bachrach, United States
Seymon Belits-Geiman, Russia
Judith Deutsch, Austria
Leo Donath, Hungary
Charlotte Epstein, United States
Anthony Ervin, United States
Harry Getz, South Africa
Alfred Hajos-Guttmann, Hungary
Otto Herschmann, Austria
Lenny Krayzelburg, United States
Keren Leibovitch, Israel
Jason Lezak, United States
Alfred Nakache, France
Paul Neumann, Austria/United States
Marilyn Ramenofsky, United States
Margalit Sonnenfeld, Israel
Mark Spitz, United States
Eva Szekely, Hungary
Judit Temes, Hungary
Dara Torres, United States
Garrett Weber-Gale, United States
Ben Wildman-Tobriner, United States
Wallace “Wally” Wolf, United States

32. TABLE TENNIS
Ruth Aarons, United States
Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu, Romania
Viktor Barna, Hungary
Laszlo Bellack, Hungary
Richard Bergmann, Austria & Great Britain
Traute Kleinova, Czechoslovakia
Erwin Kohn, Austria/Argentina
Ivor Goldsmid Montagu, Great Britain
Anna Sipos, Hungary
Mikios Szabados, Hungary
Leah Thall-Neuberger, United States
Leah Thall-Sommer, United States

33. TENNIS
Angela Buxton, Great Britain
Pierre Darmon, France
Umberto de Morpurgo, Italy
Herb Flam, United States
Ian Froman, South Africa
Brian Gottfried, United States
Jim Grabb, United States
Ladislav Hecht, Czechoslovakia
Gladys Heldman, United States
Julie Heldman, United States
Ilana Kloss, South Africa
Zsuzsa (Suzy) Kormoczy, Hungary
Harold Landesberg, United States
William Lippy, United States
Nicholas Massu, Chile
Tom Okker, Netherlands
Daniel Prenn, Germany & Great Britain
Dick Savitt, United States
Joseph Shane, United States
Harold Solomon, United States
Brian Teacher, United States
Eliot Teltscher, United States

34. TRACK & FIELD
Harold Abrahams, Great Britain
Gerald Ashworth, United States
Gretel Bergmann (Margaret Lambert), Germany
Lillian Copeland, United States
Milton Green, United States
Gary Gubner, United States
Lilli Henoch, Germany
Harry D. Henshel, United States
Maria ltkina, Soviet Union
Elias Katz, Finland
Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska, Poland
Abel Kiviat, United States
Shaul Ladany, Israel
Henry Laskau, United States
Fred Lebow, United States
Fania Melnik, Soviet Union
Laurence "Lon" Myers, United States
Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, Ukraine
Myer Prinstein, United States
Mel Rosen, United States
Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld, Canada
Ester Roth-Sachamarov, Israel
Fred Schmertz, United States
Sam Stoller, United States
Allen Tolmich, United States

35. VOLLEYBALL
Doug Beal, United States
Adriana Behar, Brazil
Arie Selinger, Israel
Eugene Selznick, United States
Hagai Zamir, Israel

35. WATER POLO
Istvan Barta, Hungary
Gyorgy Brody, Hungary
Bela Komjadi, Hungary
Bela Rajki-Reich, Hungary
Miklos Sarkany, Hungary

37. WEIGHTLIFTING
Isaac Berger, United States
Ben Helfgott, Great Gritain
Edward Lawrence Levy, Great Britain
Grigori Novak, Soviet Union
Frank Spellman, United States
Oscar State, Great Britain
Ben Weider, Canada
Joe Weider, Canada

38. WRESTLING
Boris Makovitch Gurevich, Soviet Union
Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevitch, Soviet Union
Nikolaus “Mickey” Hirschl, Austria
Karoly Karpati, Hungary
Fred Oberlander, Canada & Europe
Yakiv Punkin, Ukraine
Richard Weisz, Hungary
Henry Wittenberg, United States

39. LIFETIME ACHEIVEMENT AWARD
Sam Sharrow – 1992
David Pincus – 1993
Karl Ribstein – 1994
Monty Hall – 1995
Yariv Oren – 1996
Alan Sherman – 1997
Moshe Rashkes – 1998
Fred Worms – 1999
Joseph Luttenberg – 2000
Robert Spivak – 2001
Uri Afek – 2002
Lester Fein – 2003
Shimon Mizrahi – 2004
Sidney Greenberg – 2005
Alex Gilady – 2006
Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer – 2007
Stephen Rubin – 2008
Michael Kevehazi – 2009
Moshe Theumim – 2010
Robert Levy – 2011
Michel Grun – 2012
William Steerman – 2013
Harry Swimmer – 2014
Robert Kraft – 2015
Dr. Uri Schaefer – 2016
Victor Vaisman - 2017
Joseph Siegman - 2018
Roy Salomon - 2019

40. PRESIDENT’S AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Samuel P. Sporn – 2010
Teddy Kaplan – 2012
Reuven Heller – 2013
Zohar Sharon – 2013
Dr. Anita Shkedi – 2015
Arie Rosenzweig – 2016
Lenny Silverberg - 2017

41. About the Hall of Famer
42. Wingate Institute
43. Distinguished Authorities
44. Benefactors
45. Jewish Olympic Medalists by Dr. George Eisen
46. The Maccabiah Games
47. Munich 11

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: 01/08/2020
      ISBN13: 9781496201881, 978-1496201881
      ISBN10: 1496201884
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      Book Synopsis
      In photos and short biographies, Jewish Sports Legends introduces famous, and not so famous, Jewish sports greats throughout history.


      Trade Review
      “As a piece of reference material it is a fine accomplishment. It’s exhaustive research into a myriad of sports, and the accompanying biographies and pictures are done first class. . . . It is an education.”—Los Angeles Times
      “The impressive achievements of Jews in sports are well documented in this encyclopedic reference volume. . . . A first-rate account of Jews in sports since the end of the nineteenth century.”—Jerusalem Post
      “Any sports enthusiast, armchair or otherwise, will find this book a fascinating read. This is indeed a keepsake to read and hold for many years for those interested in sports of all ages.”—National Jewish Post and Opinion
      “It is the ultimate book for the serious sports fan.”—Jewish News
      “Jewish stars shine! The book should put to rest the notion that there are few great Jewish athletes. The book profiles the nearly 250 members of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.”—Washington Jewish Week
      “Libraries with a strong emphasis on sports collections may want to add this title to their collection.”—American Reference Books Annual
      “This encyclopedic and lavishly illustrated volume covers a dizzying array of sports. . . . I was amazed!”—Canadian Jewish News

      Table of Contents
      Foreword by Mark Spitz
      Preface by Joseph M. Siegman
      Acknowledgements
      Prologue by Dr. Uriel Sirnri

      1. AUTO RACING
      Kenny Bernstein, United States
      Mauri Rose, United States
      Jody Scheckter, South Africa
      Sheliah Van Damm, Great Britain

      2. BASEBALL
      Moe Berg, United States
      Harry Danning, United States
      Barney Dreyfuss, United States
      Sidney Gordon, United States
      Shawn Green, United States
      Henry "Hank" Greenberg, United States
      Ken Holtzman, United States
      Sanford "Sandy" Koufax, United States
      Mike Lieberthal, United States
      Marvin Miller, United States
      Charles "Buddy" Myer, United States
      Lipman Pike, United States
      Jimmie Reese, United States
      Al "Flip" Rosen, United States
      Al Schacht, United States
      Allan “Bud” Selig, United States
      Harry Simmons, Unaited States
      Steve Stone, United States
      Albert Von Tilzer, United States
      Kevin Youkilis, United States

      3. 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 “Bill” Davidson, United States
      Max Friedman, United States
      Harry Glickman, United States
      Julius Goldman, United States
      Alexander Gomelsky, Soviet Union
      Edward Gottlieb, United States
      Baruch Hagai, Israel
      Lester Harrison, United States
      Nat Holman, United States
      William "Red" Holzrnan, United States
      Rudy LaRusso, United States
      Harry Litwack, United States
      1935-1936 Long Island University Basketball Team
      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 "Dolph" Schayes, United States
      Barney Sedran, 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

      4. BILLIARDS
      Arthur Ruben, United States
      Michael Sigel, United States

      5. BOWLING
      John Brunswick, United States
      Marshall Holman, United States
      Mortimer “Mort” Lindsey, United States
      Mark Roth, United States
      Louis Stein, United States
      Sylvia Wene (Martin), United States

      6. BOXING
      Ray Arcel, United States
      Abe Attell, United States
      Monte Attell, United States
      Max Baer, United States
      Benny Bass, United States
      Jackie “Kid” Berg, Great Britain
      Samuel Berger, United States
      Jack Bernstein, United States
      Morris “Whitey” Bimstein
      Joe Choynski, United States
      Robert Cohen, France (Algeria)
      Dutch Sam (Samuel Elias), Great Britain
      Leone Efrati, Italy
      Jackie Fields, United States
      Charley Goldman, United States
      Abe Goldstein, United States
      Reuven “Ruby” Goldstein, United States
      Alphonse Halimi, France (Algeria)
      Harry Harris, United States
      Ben Jeby, United States
      Mike Jacobs, United States
      Louis "Kid" Kaplan, United States
      Solly Krieger, United States
      Benny Leonard, United States
      Battling Levinsky, United States
      Harry Lewis, United States
      Ted "Kid" Lewis, Great Britain
      Al McCoy, United States
      Daniel Mendoza, Great Britain
      Samuel Mosberg, United States
      Bob Olin, United States
      Victor "Young" Perez, Tunisia
      Charley Phil Rosenberg, United States
      Maxie Rosenbloom, United States
      Barney Ross, United States
      Corporal Izzy Schwartz, United States
      Eric Seelig, Germany
      Al Singer, United States
      Jack Solomons, Great Britain
      Lew Tendler, United States
      Gyula Torok, Hungary
      Irving Underman, Canada
      Matt Wells, Great Britain
      Young Dutch Sam, Great Britain

      7. CANOEING
      Leonid Geishtor, Russia
      Myriam Fox Jerusalmi, France

      8. CONTRIBUTORS
      Jehoshua Alouf, Israel
      Robert Atlasz, Germany/Israel
      Baruch Bagg, Israel
      Richard Blum, Germany
      Alfred Brull, Hungary
      Haskell Cohen, United States
      Lajor Domeny-Deutsch, Hungary
      Pierre Gildesgame, Great Britain
      Emmanuel Gill, Israel
      Chaim Glovinsky, Israel
      Arthur Abraham Gold, Great Britain
      Kenneth Gradon, Great Britain
      Sir Ludwig Guttmann, Germany/Great Britain
      Arthur Hanak, Israel
      Ben Hatskin, Canada
      Joseph Inbar, Israel
      Ferenc Kemeny, Hungary
      Dr. Herman Lellewer, Germany
      Ferenc Mezo, Hungary
      Zvi Nishri, Israel
      Charles Ornstein, Unted States
      Emmanuel Simon, Israel
      Dr. Uriel Simri, Israel
      Arthur Takac, Yugoslavia
      Chaim Wein, Israel
      Joseph Yekutieli, Israel
      Aviezer Yellin, Israel
      Paul Ziffren, United States
      Harold O. Zimman

      9. CRICKET
      Aron "Ali" Bacher, South Africa

      10. EQUESTRIAN
      Margie Goldstein Engle, United States
      Robert Dover, United States

      11. FENCING
      Albert Axelrod, United States
      Daniel Bukants, 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
      Yakov Rylsky, Soviet Union
      Sergi Sharikov, Russia
      David Tyshler, Soviet Union
      Eduard Vinokurov, Soviet Union
      Lajos Werkner, Hungary

      12. FIELD HOCKEY
      Carina Benninga, Netherlands

      13. FIGURE SKATING / ICE DANCING
      Ilia Avenrbukh, Russia
      Ellen Burka, Canada
      Petra Burka, Canada
      Alain Calmat, France
      Sasha Cohen, United States
      Sarah Hughes, United States
      Gennadi Karponosov, Soviet Union
      Lily Kronberger, Hungary
      Emilia Rotter, Hungary
      Louis Rubenstein, Canada
      Irina Slutskaya, Russia
      Laszlo, Szollas, Hungary

      14. 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 Goldberg, United States
      Charles “Buckets” Goldenberg, United States
      Sid Halter, Canada
      Sigmund “Sig” Harris, United States
      Lew Hayman, Canada
      Mark Levyu, United States
      Benny Lom, United States
      Sid Luckman, United States
      Joseph Magidsohn, United States
      Ron Mix, United States
      Edward Newman, United States
      Harry Newman, United States

      15. GOLF
      Amy Alcott, United States
      Herman Barron, United States

      16. GYMNASTICS
      Valeri Belenki, Azerbaijan/Germany
      Alfred Flatow, Germany
      Gustav Felix Flatow, Germany
      Mitch Gaylord, United States
      Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet Union
      Abie Grossfeld, United States
      George Gulack, United States
      Agnes Keleti, Hungary
      Tatiana Lysenko, Soviet Union/Ukraine
      Netherlands’1928 Women’s Olympic Champions
      Alexandra “Aly” Raisman, United States
      Yelena Shushuvona, Soviet Union
      Kerri Strug, United States
      Galina Urbanovich, Soviet Union

      17. HANDBALL
      Vic Hershkowitz, United States
      Jimmy Jacobs, United States
      Fred Lewis, United States
      Steve Sandler, United States

      18. HORSE RACING
      Walter Blum, United States
      Robert “Bobby” Frankel, United States
      William “Willie” Harmatz, United States
      Hirsch Jacobs, United States
      Walter Miller, United States
      Georges Stern, France

      19. ICE HOCKEY
      Garry Bettman, United States
      Hyman “Hy” Buller, Canada
      Nikolay Epshtein, Soviet Union
      Cecil "Cece" Hart, Canada
      Alfred Kuchevsky, Soviet Union
      Mathieu Schneider, United States

      20. JUDO
      Yael Arad, Israel
      Rena Kanokogi (Rusty Glickman)
      Daniela Krukower, Argentina

      21. LACROSSE
      Victor Ross, United States

      22. MEDIA
      Jesse Abramson, United States
      Maury Allen, United States
      Mel Allen, United States
      Ira Berkow, United States
      Simon “Si” Burick, United States
      Murray Chass, United States
      Howard Cosell, United States
      Dan Daniel, United States
      Massimo Della Pergola, Italy
      Al Munro Elias, United States
      Red Fisher, United States
      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 & 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 Ribalow, United States
      Ed Sabol, United States
      Dick Schapp, United States
      Jesse Silver, United States
      Roy Silver, United States
      Bill Stern, United States
      Gyorgy Szepesi (Friedlander), Hungary
      Sam Taub, United States

      23. RACQUETBALL
      Sheerman Greenfeld, Canada
      Marty Hogan, United States

      24. ROWING
      Nathan Cohen, New Zealand
      Laszlo Fabian, Hungary
      Joe Jacobi, United States
      Allen Rosenberg, United States
      Leon Rottman, Romania
      Donald Spero, United States

      25. RUGBY
      Aaron “Okey” Geffen O”The Boot”), South Africa
      Jonathan Kaplan, South Africa
      Sydney Nomis, South Africa
      Wilf Rosenberg, South Africa
      Albert Rosenfeld, Great Britain/Australia
      Joel Stransky, South Africa

      26. SAILING
      Jo Aleh, New Zealand
      Zephania Carmal, Israel
      Gal Fridman, Israel
      Lee Korsitz, Israel
      Lydia Lazarov, Israel
      Walentin Mankin, Soviet Union

      27. SOCCER
      Arthur Baar, Austria
      Jozsef Braun, Hungary
      Bela Guttmann, Hungary
      Hakoah.Vienna Club, Austria
      Kurt Lamm, United States
      Gyula Mandi, Hungary
      Hugo Meisl, Austria

      28. SOFTBALL
      Harry “Coon” Rosen, United States

      29. SPEED SKATING
      Irving Jaffee, United States

      30. SURFING
      Shaun Tomson, South Africa

      31. SWIMMING
      William Bachrach, United States
      Seymon Belits-Geiman, Russia
      Judith Deutsch, Austria
      Leo Donath, Hungary
      Charlotte Epstein, United States
      Anthony Ervin, United States
      Harry Getz, South Africa
      Alfred Hajos-Guttmann, Hungary
      Otto Herschmann, Austria
      Lenny Krayzelburg, United States
      Keren Leibovitch, Israel
      Jason Lezak, United States
      Alfred Nakache, France
      Paul Neumann, Austria/United States
      Marilyn Ramenofsky, United States
      Margalit Sonnenfeld, Israel
      Mark Spitz, United States
      Eva Szekely, Hungary
      Judit Temes, Hungary
      Dara Torres, United States
      Garrett Weber-Gale, United States
      Ben Wildman-Tobriner, United States
      Wallace “Wally” Wolf, United States

      32. TABLE TENNIS
      Ruth Aarons, United States
      Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu, Romania
      Viktor Barna, Hungary
      Laszlo Bellack, Hungary
      Richard Bergmann, Austria & Great Britain
      Traute Kleinova, Czechoslovakia
      Erwin Kohn, Austria/Argentina
      Ivor Goldsmid Montagu, Great Britain
      Anna Sipos, Hungary
      Mikios Szabados, Hungary
      Leah Thall-Neuberger, United States
      Leah Thall-Sommer, United States

      33. TENNIS
      Angela Buxton, Great Britain
      Pierre Darmon, France
      Umberto de Morpurgo, Italy
      Herb Flam, United States
      Ian Froman, South Africa
      Brian Gottfried, United States
      Jim Grabb, United States
      Ladislav Hecht, Czechoslovakia
      Gladys Heldman, United States
      Julie Heldman, United States
      Ilana Kloss, South Africa
      Zsuzsa (Suzy) Kormoczy, Hungary
      Harold Landesberg, United States
      William Lippy, United States
      Nicholas Massu, Chile
      Tom Okker, Netherlands
      Daniel Prenn, Germany & Great Britain
      Dick Savitt, United States
      Joseph Shane, United States
      Harold Solomon, United States
      Brian Teacher, United States
      Eliot Teltscher, United States

      34. TRACK & FIELD
      Harold Abrahams, Great Britain
      Gerald Ashworth, United States
      Gretel Bergmann (Margaret Lambert), Germany
      Lillian Copeland, United States
      Milton Green, United States
      Gary Gubner, United States
      Lilli Henoch, Germany
      Harry D. Henshel, United States
      Maria ltkina, Soviet Union
      Elias Katz, Finland
      Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska, Poland
      Abel Kiviat, United States
      Shaul Ladany, Israel
      Henry Laskau, United States
      Fred Lebow, United States
      Fania Melnik, Soviet Union
      Laurence "Lon" Myers, United States
      Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, Ukraine
      Myer Prinstein, United States
      Mel Rosen, United States
      Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld, Canada
      Ester Roth-Sachamarov, Israel
      Fred Schmertz, United States
      Sam Stoller, United States
      Allen Tolmich, United States

      35. VOLLEYBALL
      Doug Beal, United States
      Adriana Behar, Brazil
      Arie Selinger, Israel
      Eugene Selznick, United States
      Hagai Zamir, Israel

      35. WATER POLO
      Istvan Barta, Hungary
      Gyorgy Brody, Hungary
      Bela Komjadi, Hungary
      Bela Rajki-Reich, Hungary
      Miklos Sarkany, Hungary

      37. WEIGHTLIFTING
      Isaac Berger, United States
      Ben Helfgott, Great Gritain
      Edward Lawrence Levy, Great Britain
      Grigori Novak, Soviet Union
      Frank Spellman, United States
      Oscar State, Great Britain
      Ben Weider, Canada
      Joe Weider, Canada

      38. WRESTLING
      Boris Makovitch Gurevich, Soviet Union
      Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevitch, Soviet Union
      Nikolaus “Mickey” Hirschl, Austria
      Karoly Karpati, Hungary
      Fred Oberlander, Canada & Europe
      Yakiv Punkin, Ukraine
      Richard Weisz, Hungary
      Henry Wittenberg, United States

      39. LIFETIME ACHEIVEMENT AWARD
      Sam Sharrow – 1992
      David Pincus – 1993
      Karl Ribstein – 1994
      Monty Hall – 1995
      Yariv Oren – 1996
      Alan Sherman – 1997
      Moshe Rashkes – 1998
      Fred Worms – 1999
      Joseph Luttenberg – 2000
      Robert Spivak – 2001
      Uri Afek – 2002
      Lester Fein – 2003
      Shimon Mizrahi – 2004
      Sidney Greenberg – 2005
      Alex Gilady – 2006
      Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer – 2007
      Stephen Rubin – 2008
      Michael Kevehazi – 2009
      Moshe Theumim – 2010
      Robert Levy – 2011
      Michel Grun – 2012
      William Steerman – 2013
      Harry Swimmer – 2014
      Robert Kraft – 2015
      Dr. Uri Schaefer – 2016
      Victor Vaisman - 2017
      Joseph Siegman - 2018
      Roy Salomon - 2019

      40. PRESIDENT’S AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
      Samuel P. Sporn – 2010
      Teddy Kaplan – 2012
      Reuven Heller – 2013
      Zohar Sharon – 2013
      Dr. Anita Shkedi – 2015
      Arie Rosenzweig – 2016
      Lenny Silverberg - 2017

      41. About the Hall of Famer
      42. Wingate Institute
      43. Distinguished Authorities
      44. Benefactors
      45. Jewish Olympic Medalists by Dr. George Eisen
      46. The Maccabiah Games
      47. Munich 11

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