Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience

Full of marvelous stories, anecdotes and personalities, this novel explores the importance of sport--both watching and playing--as a middle ground for a minority culture actively determining for themselves what it meant to be American Jews. "Everything a good work of popular history should be".--Detroit Free Press. Photos.

Author: Peter Levine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/09/1993
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9780195085556

About the Author

Peter Levine is Professor of History at Michigan State University. He is the author of A.G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball, American Sport: A Documentary History, and the editor of Baseball History, 1986-91.

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