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This list includes Jews who have had outstanding achievements in sports. The criteria for inclusion in this list are: a) 1-3 places winners at major international tournaments; b) for team sports, winning in preliminary competitions of finals at major international tournaments, or playing for several seasons for clubs of major national leagues; or c) owners of world records. Bolding denotes current competitor.

Contents

Significance

The topic of Jews in sports is important to counter the stereotype of Jews as non-athletic.

See also: List of Jewish American sportspeople

Athletes

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American Football

Artistic gymnastics

Association Football

Main article: List of Jewish footballers

Australian Rules Football

Baseball

Basketball

  • Max Zaslofsky, U.S. NBA 6' 2" guard/forward, 1-time FT % leader, 1-time points leader, All-Star, & ABA coach
  • Eli Given U.S NBA 6'2"

Boxing

Ronnie Kerner (Ronnie "The Rottweiler" Kerner) US Heavyweight NYBSC Champion Aka. "The Knock Out King"

  • Julie Kogon,[26] U.S. lightweight boxer
  • Solly Krieger ("Danny Auerbach"), U.S. world champion middleweight boxer
  • Benny Leonard (Benjamin Leiner; "The Ghetto Wizard"), U.S. world champion lightweight boxer, Hall of Fame
  • Artie Levine, U.S. middleweight & light heavyweight boxer
  • Battling Levinsky (Barney Lebrowitz), U.S. world champion light heavyweight boxer, Hall of Fame
  • Harry Lewis ("Harry Besterman"), U.S. world champion welterweight boxer
  • Ted "Kid" Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff), English world champion welterweight boxer, Hall of Fame
  • Sammy Luftspring, Canadian welterweight boxing champion, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
  • Saoul Mamby, U.S. world champion junior welterweight boxer
  • Al McCoy (Alexander Rudolph), U.S. world champion middleweight boxer
  • Daniel Mendoza, English boxer, Hall of Fame
  • Samuel Mosberg, U.S. Olympic champion lightweight boxer
  • Bob Olin, U.S. world champion light heavyweight boxer
  • Victor Perez ("Young"), Tunisian world champion flyweight boxer
  • Charlie Phil Rosenberg ("Charles Green"), U.S. world champion bantamweight boxer
  • Dana Rosenblatt ("Dangerous"), U.S. world champion middleweight boxer
  • Maxie Rosenbloom ("Slapsie"), U.S. world champion light heavyweight boxer, Hall of Fame, wore a Star of David on his trunks
  • Barney Ross (Dov-Ber Rasofsky), U.S. world champion lightweight & junior welterweight boxer, Hall of Fame
  • Mike Rossman (Michael Albert DiPiano; "The Jewish Bomber"), U.S. world champion light heavyweight boxer, wore Star of David on trunks
  • Shamil Sabirov, Russian Olympic champion light flyweight boxer
  • Dmitry Salita ("Star of David"), U.S. junior welterweight undefeated boxer
  • Isadore "Corporal Izzy" Schwartz ("The Ghetto Midget"), U.S. world champion flyweight boxer
  • Al Singer ("The Bronx Beauty"), U.S. world champion lightweight boxer
  • "Lefty" Lew Tendler, U.S. bantamweight, lightweight, and welterweight boxer, Hall of Fame, wore a Star of David on his trunks
  • Sid Terris ("Ghost of the Ghetto"), U.S. lightweight boxer, wore a Star of David on his trunks
  • Sammy Waltz,[26] U.S. boxer
  • Victor Zilberman, Rumanian Olympic welterweight bronze medal winner
  • Robert Waites (Wallasey Mark beating champion)
  • Nathan Lewis Wallasey England (Mosslands) heavy Wieght Champion 1999 - 2006
  • Sam Gaskell Wallasey, United Kingdom Olympic Champion, Gold Medalist

Canoeing

Chess

Cricket

Fencing

Field Hockey

Figure skating

Golf

Gymnastics

Ice hockey

Judo

Mixed martial arts

  • Adam Brozer, US Olympic Karate Team Member
  • Jeffrey Kohn, US Olympic Karate Coach
  • Rory Singer, fighter from The Ultimate Fighter 3[39]
  • Sasha Susterman, South American Champion, Florida Champion, Venezuela Champion, Israel champion

Motorsport

Rugby League

Rugby Union

See also: Rugby union at the Maccabiah Games

Sailing

  • Tony Bullimore,[49] British yachtsman
  • Zefania Carmel, Israeli Women's yachtsman, world champion
  • Anat Fabrikant, Israeli Women's Double-Handed Dinghy 470
  • Gal Fridman, Israeli windsurfer, Olympic champion, Israel's first Gold Medallist
  • Valentyn Mankin, Soviet/Ukrainian, the only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes in 1968, 1972, and 1980, silver in 1976, Valentyn Mankin
  • Mark Mendelblatt, American 2004 Olympic Sailor, [31] [32]

Speed Skating

  • Irving Jaffee, U.S. Speed Skater, Olympic champion
  • Rafael Grach, USSR Speed Skater, 2 Olympic medals

Swimming

Table tennis

  • Viktor Barna (Braun), Hungarian 23-time world champion
  • Laszlo Bellak, Hungarian/U.S. 7-time world champion
  • Richard Bergmann, Austrian/British 7-time world champion
  • Alex (Aloys) Erlich, Poland/France, 3 times World Singles Finalist.
  • Marina Kravchenko, Ukrainian-born Israeli table tennis player
  • Ivor Montagu, British table tennis player
  • Leah Neuberger (Thall), U.S., 29-time national champion
  • Marty Reissman, American International World class player.
  • Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian/Israeli 17-time world champion
  • Marcus Schussheim, First US national champion
  • Anna Sipos, Hungarian 21-time world champion
  • Miklos Szabados, Hungarian/Australian 15-time world champion
  • Leon Wajchenberg, Polish table tennis champion 1940, Egyptian table tennis champion 1945
  • David Zalcberg, Australian table tennis player
  • Selma Altshuler, Triple South African Champion 1957
  • Matt Farina, University of Richmond Champion, 2008

Tennis

Track and field

Triathlon

  • Joanna Zeiger, U.S. Professional Triathlete, Ironman 70.3 World Champion 2008 and world record holder[55]

Volleyball

Water Polo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Professional wrestling

Commissioners, managers, and owners

Sportscasters & promoters

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ Harush, Moshe. "Awat sparks storm with decision to play on Yom Kippur". Ha'aretz. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/766078.html. Retrieved 2008-07-04. 
  2. ^ Spunder, Or (2008-01-24). "הקשר ג'ונתן אסוס מועמד למכבי ת"א" (in Hebrew). One.co.il. http://www.one.co.il/Article/109149.html. Retrieved 2008-01-28. "קשרה היהודי/צרפתי של ראים מהליגה ה-2 בצרפת עשוי להגיע להתרשמות במכבי." 
  3. ^ Bornstein – named as on "Jewish Sports Review Men's All-America First-Team" at [1]; [2] ""It was amazing. It was great. I loved it. It made me realize how fulfilling and enriched Jewish culture really is", Bornstein said. "So in the past couple years, I've felt more Jewish than ever." His father is Jewish and his mother is a non-Jew from Mexico. Grew up celebrating Passover and Rosh Hashanah with relatives. Did not have a bar mitzvah, and doesn't consider himself observant. The Maccabiah experience was a way for him to connect with Judaism."
  4. ^ McNulty, Dean. "TFC trying to get off schneid". Toronto Sun. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Soccer/TorontoFC/2007/09/19/4508704-sun.html. Retrieved 2008-07-04. "Adam Braz won't be playing because he'll be at home in Montreal observing the Jewish high holiday (Yom Kippur) with his family" 
  5. ^ [3]
  6. ^ Feilhaber - [4] "Outside of my UCLA teammate Benny Feilhaber, I never really thought there were other high-class Jewish soccer players out there"
  7. ^ "דיווחים בצרפת: מכבי ת"א מעוניינת ברודי חדד" (in Hebrew). One.co.il. 2007-07-07. http://www.one.co.il/cat/articles/article.aspx?id=94947&bz=8. Retrieved 2007-07-07. "האם הקשר היהודי, רודי חדד, בדרך למכבי תל-אביב?" 
  8. ^ Bell, Jack (2005-09-20). "German Federation Admits to Nazi Past". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/sports/soccer/20soccer.html?_r=1&oref=slogin. Retrieved 2008-07-05. "The book also details how thousands of German Jews were forced out of all levels of soccer. Some, including the national team player Julius Hirsch, were murdered by the Nazis." 
  9. ^ a b Rowland, Paul (2007-04-10). "Bluebirds' star first British Jew footballer for 25 years". WalesOnline.co.uk. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2007/04/10/bluebirds-star-first-british-jew-footballer-for-25-years-91466-18882090/. Retrieved 2008-07-04. 
  10. ^ Bar Dayan, Shirley (2006-07-18). "קאלה טברטקו מגלה: "סבתא שלי יהודיה"" (in Hebrew). Sport 5. http://www.sport5.co.il/articles.aspx?FolderID=64&docID=8505&lang=he. Retrieved 2008-07-04. "אני אמנם נוצרי אבל סבתא שלי יהודיה, מהצד של אימא שלי" 
  11. ^ Baram, Sagiv (2007-06-13). "המסורת היהודית" (in Hebrew). Walla!. http://euro.walla.co.il/?w=//1168489. Retrieved 2008-06-30. "לפני כשנתיים הגיע לארץ שחקן יהודי ארגנטינאי בשם לוקאס לישט (בתקשורת קראו לו אז ליכט)." 
  12. ^ Spunder, Or (2008-07-05). "מכבי תל אביב פנתה רשמית למרסלו ליפאטין" (in Hebrew). One.co.il. http://www.one.co.il/Article/119226.html. Retrieved 2008-07-05. 
  13. ^ Peshkhatzki, Motti (2006-06-09). "דינמו קייב לבית"ר: 220 אלף דולר על אנדריי אוברמקו" (in Hebrew). http://www.nrg.co.il/online/3/ART1/433/383.html. Retrieved 2008-07-06. 
  14. ^ [5] de Ridder - "he netted a Ajax's only goal in the Champions League game at Maccabi Tel Aviv, which Ajax lost in dramatic fashion. That fixture was a special one for De Ridder, who is Jewish and has an Israeli mother."
  15. ^ Baram, Sagiv (2007-06-13). "המסורת היהודית" (in Hebrew). Walla!. http://euro.walla.co.il/?w=//1168489. Retrieved 2008-06-30. "כדורגלן יהודי עם רזומה יחסית מרשים שכן הגיע לישראל הוא ניקולס טאובר" 
  16. ^ Browne, Ashley (2009-08-09). "Goldstein stars for Kangaroos". Australian Jewish News. http://jewishnews.net.au/2009/08/09/goldstein-stars-for-kangaroos/#more-6518. Retrieved 10 August 2009. 
  17. ^ Blomberg - [6] "Ron Blomberg... Big, hulking Jewish kid from Atlanta."
  18. ^ The Official Site of The Milwaukee Brewers: Team: Player Information
  19. ^ Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver, Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports, Bloch Publishing Co., 1965
  20. ^ j. - Celebrity Jews
  21. ^ [7]
  22. ^ a b Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, January 19, 2007 p.45
  23. ^ [8]
  24. ^ [9] "Jewish shooting star aims to make his mark in NBA... Bluthenthal's late mother was Jewish and his father is black — the family name Bluthenthal originated with a slave owner David Bluthenthal believes was German-Jewish."
  25. ^ [10] "Bruin fans call him the Jewish Jordan...He's a real, live Jewish kid from the heart of Los Angeles, whose step-father is Israeli and has visited Israel twice" [11]
  26. ^ a b c d e f Dresner, Stacey (2006-11-17). "Conversation with Manny Leibert". Connecticut Jewish Ledger. p. 2. http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2006/11/17/news/news11.txt. Retrieved 2006-11-17. 
  27. ^ Dwivedi, Sandeep (2009-07-28). "Indian cricketers strike silver at Jewish Olympics, little Moshe first to get a feel". Indian Express. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/indian-cricketers-strike-silver-at-jewish-olympics-little-moshe-first-to-get-a-feel/494958/0. Retrieved 22 August 2009. 
  28. ^ [12]
  29. ^ [13] "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for... Ice skater Sasha Cohen" [14] [15]
  30. ^ Galler-Rabinowitz -
  31. ^ [16] "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for in Turin... Melissa Gregory" [17] "Gregory is the daughter of a Jewish mother and a non-practicing Catholic father. She now lives in Connecticut to train and Gregory recently spoke to the Connecticut Jewish Ledger about her religious background: "We [my brother and I] were brought up with the feeling that you have to believe in G-d. You have to believe in right and wrong. The rest they kind of left up to us. We celebrated everything-Christmas, Hanukkah, all the Jewish holidays, Easter. They taught us both traditions. Then when we got older they said whatever we chose and whatever we wanted was good with them. I identify that my heritage is Jewish. I feel proud of it.""
  32. ^ [18] "Emily Hughes — whose sister Sarah won the 2002 Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating — also is Jewish."
  33. ^ [19] "16-year-old Sarah Hughes has a Jewish mother, Amy Hughes née Pasternack, and reportedly grew up in a house with some attachment to Judaism. But odds are you didn't read about it in your local Jewish paper."]
  34. ^ [20] "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for in Turin! Ice dancer Jamie Silverstein"
  35. ^ Name: RUDI BALL
  36. ^ Labovitch, Max : Jews In Sports @ Virtual Museum
  37. ^ [21] "Nystrom is the highest Jewish draft pick in NHL draft history"
  38. ^ [22]: "Jewish skaters vie for spots in the NHL"
  39. ^ {http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=2792&pid=455}
  40. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Sheila's upbringing in an all-girl Jewish family generated no interest in motoring beyond her training as a Women's Auxiliary Air Force driver."
  41. ^ a b c d e f g Encyclopedia Judaica, Second Edition, volume 19, p146
  42. ^ http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/WilfRosenberg.htm
  43. ^ http://www.thejc.com/news/letter/letter-from-cape-town
  44. ^ a b c d e f g http://www.maccabiusa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=15&id=50&Itemid=93
  45. ^ Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ISBN 1 86200 013 3) p68
  46. ^ Starmer-Smith, Nigel (ed) Rugby - A Way of Life, An Illustrated History of Rugby (Lennard Books, 1986 ISBN 0 7126 2662 X), p42
  47. ^ http://www.thejc.com/news/letter/letter-from-cape-town
  48. ^ http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/WilfRosenberg.htm
  49. ^ "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
  50. ^ Spitz -, following Michael Phelps [23] "Spitz became the first Jewish recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award..."
  51. ^ [24] ""He knows he's Jewish and the values are there with him", said Clark Goldstein, Paul's father."
  52. ^ [25], sprinter, Olympic champion
  53. ^ Uc_Hilal : Jews In Sports @ Virtual Museum
  54. ^ The Jewish Chronicle
  55. ^ [26] [27]
  56. ^ a b c d Handler, Judd "The Hebrew Hulk", San Diego Jewish Journal
  57. ^ Paul Farhi, "Goldberg: A David in Goliath's Shoes", Washington Post, December 9, 1999.
  58. ^ a b Floridian: A wrestling dynasty
  59. ^ http://www.thejc.com/news/letter/letter-from-cape-town
  60. ^ Historical View
  61. ^ Hart, Cecil "Cece" : Jews In Sports @ Virtual Museum
  62. ^ http://www.thejc.com/news/letter/letter-from-cape-town
  63. ^ Jews in the NFL
  64. ^ Robert David Jaffee, "Jamie McCourt Proves She’s an Artful Dodger President," The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, July 19, 2006
  65. ^ Pleat, David : Jews In Sports @ Virtual Museum
  66. ^ Wilf - [28] "The team's owner, Zygi Wilf, an Orthodox Jew ..."
  67. ^ The Observer (London); 18/12/05; p. 6

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