When Basketball Was Jewish: Voices of Those Who Played the Game

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In the 2015–16 NBA season, the Jewish presence in the league Was once in large part confined to Adam Silver, the commissioner; David Blatt, the coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers; and Omri Casspi, a player for the Sacramento Kings. Basketball, then again, Was once once known as a Jewish sport. In a while after the game Was once invented at the end of the nineteenth century, it spread all the way through the country and became particularly popular among Jewish immigrant children in northeastern cities because it could easily be played in an urban setting. Many of basketball’s early stars were Jewish, including Shikey Gotthoffer, Sonny Hertzberg, Nat Holman, Red Klotz, Dolph Schayes, Moe Spahn, and Max Zaslofsky.

In this oral history collection, Douglas Stark chronicles Jewish basketball all the way through the twentieth century, that specialize in 1900 to 1960. As told by the prominent voices of twenty people who played, coached, and refereed it, these conversations make clear what it means to be a Jew and on how the game evolved from its humble origins to the sport enjoyed around the world by billions of fans today. The game’s development, changes in style, rise in popularity, and national emergence after World War II are narrated by men reliving their youth, when basketball Was once a game they played for the love of it.

When Basketball Was once Jewish reveals, as no previous book has, the evolving role of Jews in basketball and illuminates their contributions to American Jewish history in addition to basketball history.


 


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