In the 2015-16 NBA season, the Jewish presence in the league was
largely confined to Adam Silver, the commissioner; David Blatt, the
coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers; and Omri Casspi, a player for the
Sacramento Kings. Basketball, however, was once referred to as a
Jewish sport. Shortly after the game was invented at the end of the
nineteenth century, it spread throughout 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 throughout
the twentieth century, focusing on 1900 to 1960. As told by the
prominent voices of twenty people who played, coached, and refereed
it, these conversations shed light on what it means to be a Jew and
on how the game evolved from its humble origins to the sport
enjoyed worldwide 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 a game they played for the love of it.
When Basketball Was Jewish reveals, as no previous book has, the
evolving role of Jews in basketball and illuminates their
contributions to American Jewish history as well as basketball
history.
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