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Bookmark or Share- 3 of the top 5 NCAA men’s basketball teams are coached by JewsIn this Jewish Sports Report, there’s news about basketball, football, hockey, and baseball cards.
- Basketball and the Jews | My Jewish LearningIn the early 1920s, Jewish basketball spread throughout the country. As neighborhoods stabilized due to immigration restriction, American-born children began to assimilate and embraced America’s sporting culture. Jewish players often played at YMHAs, synagogues, and community centers before and after their college or professional careers.
- Basketball - The Original City Game - Jewish Virtual LibraryAthletic scholarships in basketball served as a means of upward mobility for nativeborn sons of New York’s immigrant Jews. After college, experience on the court led to positions as teachers and coaches. For a talented handful, basketball became a professional career.
- When Basketball Was Jewish - The Jewish MuseumMany 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.
- New Documentary Explores History Of Jews and BasketballLong before Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal dominated men’s professional basketball, Jewish basketball teams were all the rage in the early 20th century. A new documentary called...
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