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yakov_a_jerkov) wrote2019-06-25 01:26 pm
yakov_a_jerkov) wrote2019-06-25 01:26 pm
Еврейские новости
Teenager Jack Hughes is first Jewish player to be No. 1 overall pick in National Hockey League draft https://t.co/LPFPRczBty pic.twitter.com/IvYlwk24s1
— JTA | Jewish news (@JTAnews) June 25, 2019
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Но вообще это ж конкретно в категории "first Jewish player to be No. 1 overall pick in National Hockey League draft".
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Малкин был drafted под вторым номером.
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https://www.nhl.com/news/quintin-hughes-first-of-three-brothers-to-be-nhl-draft-selections/c-299114340
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Забытая история: между первой и второй мировой евреи доминировали в американском профессиональном боксе.
Well, those were the days of the struggle of the American Jews in the urban ghettos against poverty and anti-Semitism. Boxing was for many kids a way out. It was a way to ease their inferiority complex of being immigrants and members of an ethnic group before the process of the melting pot. Boxing operated without anti-Semitism. It was open to immigrants. But one should keep in mind the fact that "boxing" was not related as a Jewish profession: The Jewish press, Bodner pointed out, tended to ignore it in its reporting. For many Jews, boxing was shameful. The boxers had to hide their profession from their own families. The mother of Benny Leonard or Benjamin Leiner (most boxers had their professional names ) once condemned this sport as a shame. She did not know that her own son was a boxer!
http://www.jewishpost.com/archives/news/when-boxing-was-a-jewish-sport.html
В знаменитом матче в Бронксе в 1933 году Макс Баер со звездой Давида на трусах победил любимца Гитлера, Макса Шмелинга из Германии. Воспоминания очевидца:
"So Jews all over New York rallied to Max Baer, who was only half Jewish. As far as I was concerned, he had Jewish fists that could pummel Schmeling. That was enough for me and for lots of others. When my boss gave me two tickets to go to Yankee Stadium to see the fight, I was excited. I asked your mother if she wanted to go, but she didn’t like the fights, so I took a friend, Bob Potash. Like most people we took the subway up to the Bronx. The stadium was packed. Out of 60,000 attendees, there must have been 30,000 Jews. You know, it was the Depression, and a lot of people wouldn’t pay to go to a fight, but this was special. The Jewish fans yelled their lungs out for Baer, especially after he took off his robe and we saw a Jewish star on his trunks. There were also some German Bund types who cheered for Schmeling, but that was expected. There was a large German community up in Yorkville, and the German Bund had some sort of club up there.
As soon as the fight began, Baer came out punching. He must have landed five punches in round one for every one that Schmeling landed. Baer had this technique, which I never saw in the ring before, of grabbing his opponent by the back of the neck, then punching his head with his other hand. Sometimes he would just grab Schmeling by the neck and push him away. When Baer got hit, he would laugh at Schmeling, as if to say, ‘you can’t hurt me’.” In the 9th round, Baer was well ahead of Schmeling, but in the 10th Baer came out of his corner like a tiger. He hit Schmeling punch after punch. Schmeling went down, and the crowd erupted with a spontaneous cheer. I thought it was over, but Schmeling managed to get up. A big mistake, because Baer pummeled him so hard and so fiercely that the referee had to stop the fight. We cheered and felt great. Everybody I knew was excited. Baer was in all the papers, the News, the Mirror, the Journal American, the Post. He was our hero. Afterward, the gossip columnists reported that he had an affair with Greta Garbo. He even starred in a movie, The Prizefighter and The Lady. Not a bad picture."
http://www.boxing.com/baer_vs._schmeling.html
(Looks, however, like blood, can be deceiving. Before the fight, Max was training in the gym during the Jewish High Holy Days when his manager walked in on him. “What are you doing Max?” asked Ancil. “I’m training for Schmeling,” said Max as he pounded the heavy bag. “What about Yom Kippur?” his manager wanted to know. Max said, “I’ll fight him next.”)
http://www.boxing.com/every_punch_was_aimed_at_hitler.html
Ныне в боксе другие герои.
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Up until the midcentury, boxing was a major spectator sport, rivaling baseball in popularity. Jewish champions such as Benny Leonard, Al Singer Jackie “Kid” Berg, and Barney Ross were elevated to hero status in poor urban communities. They were looked up to and admired by a generation of immigrants, and their children and were a source of inspiration, pride, and hope to a population struggling to break free of poverty and enter the mainstream. It is one of the most unique and colorful chapters of the Jewish immigrant experience in America.
Between 1901 and 1939, just under thirty Jewish boxers were recognized as world champions, and over 160 were ranked among the top ten title challengers in their respective weight divisions. By 1928 Jewish boxers comprised the largest ethnic group among title contenders in the ten weight divisions. In fact, the most famous Jewish person in America during the 1920s was the peerless lightweight champion of the world, Benny Leonard.
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/in-the-clearing-stands-a-jewish-boxer