Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Auto Racing
Kenny Bernstein, United States
Mauri Rose, United States
Jody Scheckter, South Africa
Sheila Van Damm, Great Britain
Baseball
Morris “Moe” Berg, United States
Harry “the Horse” Danning, United States
Barney Dreyfuss, United States
Sidney Gordon, United States
Shawn Green, United States
Henry Benjamin “Hank” Greenberg, United States
Kenneth Holtzman, United States
Sanford “Sandy” Koufax, United States
Mike Lieberthal, United States
Marvin Miller, United States
Charles “Buddy” Myer, United States
Lipman “Lip” Pike, United States
Jimmie Reese (James Hymie Solomon), United States
Al “Flip” Rosen, United States
Al Schacht, United States
Allan “Bud” Selig, United States
Harry Simmons, United States
Steve Stone, United States
Albert Von Tilzer, United States
Kevin Youkilis, United States
Basketball
Arnold “Red” Auerbach, United States
Sam Balter, United States
Louis Bender, United States
Senda Berenson, United States
Harry Boykoff, United States
Tal Brody, Israel
Lawrence Brown, United States
William Davidson, United States
Max Friedman, United States
Harry Glickman, United States
Julius Goldman, Canada
Alexander Gomelsky, Soviet Union
Edward Gottlieb, United States
Baruch Hagai, Israel
Lester Harrison, United States
Nat Holman, United States
William “Red” Holzman, United States
Rudy LaRusso, United States
Harry Litwack, United States
1935–36 Long Island University Basketball Team, United States
Donna Geils Orender, United States
Orna Ostfeld, Israel
Philadelphia SPHAs, United States
Maurice Podoloff, United States
Leonard Rosenbluth, United States
Mendy Rudolph, United States
Abe Saperstein, United States
Adolph Schayes, United States
Barney Sedran (Sedransky), United States
Morris “Moe” Spahn, United States
David Stern, United States
Earl Strom, United States
Sidney Tanenbaum, United States
David “Pep” Tobey, United States
Max Zaslofsky, United States
Billiards
Michael Sigel, United States
Bowling
John M. Brunswick, United States
Marshall Holman, United States
Mortimer Lindsey, United States
Mark Roth, United States
Louis Stein, United States
Sylvia Wene (Martin), United States
Boxing
Ray Arcel, United States
Abe Attell, United States
Monte Attell, United States
Maximilian Baer, United States
Benny Bass, United States
Jackie “Kid” Berg (Judah Bergman), Great Britain
Samuel Berger, United States
Jack Bernstein (John Dodick), United States
Morris “Whitey” Bimstein, United States
Joe Choynski (“Chrysanthemum Joe”), United States
Robert Cohen, France (Algeria)
Dutch Sam (Samuel Elias), Great Britain
Leone Efrati, Italy
Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein), United States
Charley Goldman, United States
Abe Goldstein, United States
Reuven “Ruby” Goldstein, United States
Alphonse Halimi, France (Algeria)
Harry Harris, United States
Michael Jacobs, United States
Ben Jeby, United States
Louis “Kid” Kaplan, United States
Solly Krieger, United States
Benny Leonard (Benjamin Leiner), United States
Battling Levinsky (Barney Lebrowitz), United States
Harry Lewis (Besterman), United States
Ted “Kid” Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff), Great Britain
Al McCoy (Rudolph), United States
Daniel Mendoza, Great Britain
Samuel Mosberg, United States
Bob Olin, United States
Victor “Young” Perez, Tunisia
Charley Phil Rosenberg (Charles Green), United States
Max “Slapsie Maxie” Rosenbloom, United States
Barney Ross (Beryl David Rosofsky), United States
Isadore “Corporal Izzy” Schwartz, United States
Eric Seelig, Germany
Al Singer, United States
Jack Solomons, Great Britain
Lew Tendler, United States
Gyula Török, Hungary
Irving Ungerman, Canada
Matt Wells, Great Britain
Young Dutch Sam (Samuel Elias), Great Britain
Canoeing
Laszlo Fabian, Hungary
Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, France
Leonid Geishtor, Russia
Joe Jacobi, United States
Leon Rottman, Romania
Contributors
Jehoshua Alouf (Wolpiansky), Palestine/Israel
Robert Atlasz, Germany and Israel
Baruch Bagg, Palestine/Israel
Richard Blum, Germany
Alfred Brull, Hungary
Haskell Cohen, United States
Lajos Domeny-Deutsch, Hungary
Pierre Gildesgame, Great Britain
Emmanuel Gill (Glickman), Palestine/Israel
Chaim Glovinsky, Palestine/Israel
Arthur Abraham Gold, Great Britain
Kenneth Gradon (Gradenwitz), Great Britain
Ludwig “Poppa” Guttmann, Germany and Great Britain
Arthur Hanak, Israel
Joseph Inbar (Burstein), Palestine/Israel
Ferenc Kemeny (Kaufmann), Hungary
Herman Lellewer, Germany
Ferenc Mezo (Grunfeld), Hungary
Zvi Nishri (Orloff), Palestine/Israel
Charles Ornstein, United States
Emmanuel Simon, Palestine/Israel
Uriel Simri, Palestine/Israel
Artur Takac, Yugoslavia
Chaim Wein, Palestine/Israel
Joseph Yekutieli, Israel
Aviezer Yellin, Israel
Paul Ziffren, United States
Harold O. Zimman, United States
Cricket
Aron “Ali” Bacher, South Africa
Equestrian
Margie Goldstein-Engle, United States
Robert Dover, United States
Fencing
Albert Axelrod, United States
Daniel Bukantz, United States
Jeno Fuchs, Hungary
Tamas Gabor, Hungary
Janos Garay, Hungary
Oszkar Gerde, Hungary
Sandor Gombos, Hungary
Sada Jacobson, United States
Allan Jay, Great Britain
Endre Kabos, Hungary
Grigori Kriss, Soviet Union
Alexandre Lippmann, France
Mark Midler, Soviet Union
Armand Mouyal, France
Ivan Osiier, Denmark
Attila Petschauer, Hungary
Julia Jones-Pugliese, United States
Mark Rakita, Soviet Union
Sergei Sharikov, Soviet Union/Russia
David Tyshler, Soviet Union
Eduard Vinokurov, Soviet Union/Kazakh SSR
Lajos Werkner, Hungary
Field Hockey
Carina Benninga, Netherlands
Figure Skating–Ice Dancing
Ilia Averbukh, Russia
Ellen Burka, Canada
Petra Burka, Canada
Alain Calmat, France
Sasha Cohen, United States
Sarah Hughes, United States
Gennadi Karponosov, Soviet Union
Lili Kronberger, Hungary
Emilia Rotter, Hungary
Louis Rubenstein, Canada
Irina Slutskaya, Russia
Laszlo Szollas, Hungary
Football
Joseph Alexander, United States
Lyle Alzado, United States
Harris Barton, United States
Arthur “Bluey” Bluethenthal, United States
Al Davis, United States
Benny Friedman, United States
Sid Gillman, United States
Marshall “Biggie” Goldberg, United States
Charles “Buckets” Goldenberg, United States
Sid Halter, Canada
Sigmund Harris, United States
Lew Hayman, Canada
Marv Levy, United States
Benny Lom, United States
Sidney Luckman, United States
Joseph Magidsohn, United States
Ron Mix, United States
Edward Newman, United States
Harry Newman, United States
Golf
Amy Alcott, United States
Herman Barron, United States
Gymnastics
Valeri Belenki, Azerbaijan and Germany
Alfred Flatow, Germany
Gustav Felix Flatow, Germany
Mitchell Gaylord, United States
Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet Union
Abie Grossfeld, United States
George Gulack, United States
Agnes Keleti (Klein), Hungary
Tatiana Lysenko, Soviet Union/Ukraine
Netherlands 1928 Women’s Olympic Gymnasts
Alexandra Raisman, United States
Yelena Shushuvona, Soviet Union
Kerri Strug, United States
Galina Urbanovich, Soviet Union
Handball
Victor Hershkowitz, United States
James Jacobs, United States
Fred Lewis, United States
Steve Sandler, United States
Horse Racing
Walter Blum, United States
Robert Frankel, United States
William Harmatz, United States
Hirsch Jacobs, United States
Walter Miller, United States
Georges Stern, France
Ice Hockey
Gary Bettman, United States
Hyman “Hy” Buller, Canada
Nikolay Epshtein, Soviet Union
Cecil Hart, Canada
Ben Hatskin, Canada
Alfred Kuchevsky, Soviet Union/Russia
Mathieu Schneider, United States
Judo
Yael Arad, Israel
Rena “Rusty” Kanokogi (Glickman), United States
Daniela Krukower, Argentina
Lacrosse
Victor Ross, United States
Media
Jesse Abramson, United States
Maury Allen, United States
Mel Allen (Melvin Allen Israel), United States
Ira Berkow, United States
Simon Burick, United States
Murray Chass, United States
Howard Cosell (Cohen), United States
Dan Daniel (Margowitz), United States
Massimo Della Pergola, Italy
Al Munro Elias, United States
Red Fisher, Canada
Nat Fleischer, United States
Marty Glickman, United States
Al Greenberg, United States
Bud Greenspan, United States
Jerome Holtzman, United States
Jerry Izenberg, United States
Hank Kaplan, United States
Max Kase, United States
Leonard Koppett, United States
A. J. Liebling, United States
Willy Meisl, Germany and Great Britain
Barney Nagler, United States
Ben Olan, United States
Murray Olderman, United States
Bernard Postal, United States
Shirley Povich, United States
Joe Reichler, United States
Harold U. Ribalow, United States
Ed Sabol, United States
Dick Schaap, United States
Jesse Silver, United States
Roy Silver, United States
Bill Stern, United States
György Szepesi, Hungary
Sam Taub, United States
Racquetball
Sherman Greenfeld, Canada
Marty Hogan, United States
Rowing
Allen Rosenberg, United States
Donald Spero, United States
Rugby
Aaron “Okey” Geffin, South Africa
Jonathan Kaplan, South Africa
Sydney Nomis, South Africa
Wilf Rosenberg, South Africa
Albert Rosenfeld, Great Britain and Australia
Joel Stransky, South Africa
Sailing
Joanne Aleh, New Zealand
Zephania Carmel, Israel
Gal Fridman, Israel
Lee Korzits, Israel
Lydia Lazarov, Israel
Walentin Mankin, Soviet Union
Soccer
Arthur Baar, Austria
Jozsef Braun, Hungary
Bela Guttmann, Hungary
Hakoah-Vienna Club, Austria
Kurt Lamm, United States
Gyula Mandi (Julius Mandel), Hungary
Hugo Meisl, Austria
Softball
Harry “Coon” Rosen, United States
Speed Skating
Irving Jaffee, United States
Surfing
Shaun Tomson (Tomchinsky), South Africa
Swimming
William Bachrach, United States
Semion Belits-Geiman, Russia
Judith Deutsch, Austria
Leo Donath, Hungary
Charlotte “Eppy” Epstein, United States
Anthony Ervin, United States
Harry Getz, South Africa
Alfred Hajos-Guttmann, Hungary
Otto Herschmann, Austria
Lenny Krayzelburg, United States
Keren Leibovitch, Israel
Jason Lezak, United States
Alfred Nakache, France
Paul Neumann, Austria and United States
Marilyn Ramenofsky, United States
Margalit Sonnenfeld, Israel
Mark Spitz, United States
Eva Szekely, Hungary
Judit Temes, Hungary
Dara Torres, United States
Garrett Weber-Gale, United States
Ben Wildman-Tobriner, United States
Wallace Wolf, United States
Table Tennis
Ruth Aarons, United States
Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu, Romania
Viktor Gyozo Barna (Braun), Hungary
Laszlo Bellak, Hungary
Richard Bergmann, Austria and Great Britain
Traute Kleinova, Czechoslovakia
Erwin Kohn, Austria and Argentina
Ivor Goldsmid Montagu, Great Britain
Anna Sipos, Hungary
Milklos Szabados, Hungary
Leah Thall-Neuberger (Miss Ping), United States
Thelma “Tybie” Thall-Sommer, United States
Tennis
Angela Buxton, Great Britain
Pierre Darmon, France
Umberto de Morpurgo, Italy
Herb Flam, United States
Ian Froman, South Africa
Brian Gottfried, United States
Jim Grabb, United States
Ladislav Hecht, Czechoslovakia
Gladys Heldman (Medalie), United States
Julie Heldman, United States
Ilana Kloss, South Africa
Zsuzsa “Suzy” Kormoczy, Hungary
Harold Landesberg, United States
William Lippy, United States
Nicholas Massu (Fried), Chile
Tom Okker (the Flying Dutchman), Netherlands
Daniel Prenn, Germany and Great Britain
Richard “Dick” Savitt, United States
Joseph Shane, United States
Harold Solomon, United States
Brian Teacher, United States
Eliot Teltscher, United States
Track and Field
Harold Maurice Abrahams, Great Britain
Gerald Ashworth, United States
Gretel Bergmann (Margaret Lambert), Germany
Lillian Copeland, United States
Milton Green, United States
Gary Gubner, United States
Lilli Henoch, Germany
Harry D. Henshel, United States
Maria Leontyavna Itkina, Soviet Union
Elias Katz, Finland
Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska, Poland
Abel Kiviat, United States
Shaul Ladany, Israel
Helmut Henry Laskau, United States
Fred Lebow (Fischel Lebowitz), United States
Fania Melnik, Soviet Union
Laurence E. “Lon” Myers, United States
Zhanna Pintusevich-Block (Tarnopolskaya), Ukraine
Myer Prinstein, United States
Mel Rosen, United States
Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld, Canada
Esther Roth-Sachamarov, Israel
Fred Schmertz, United States
Sam Stoller, United States
Allen Tolmich, United States
Volleyball
Doug Beal, United States
Adriana Behar, Brazil
Arie Selinger, Israel
Eugene Selznick, United States
Hagai Zamir, Israel
Water Polo
Istvan Barta (Berger), Hungary
György Brody, Hungary
Bela Komjadi, Hungary
Miklös Sárkány, Hungary
Weightlifting
Isaac Berger, United States
Ben Helfgott, Great Britain
Edward Lawrence Levy, Great Britain
Grigori Novak, Soviet Union
Frank Spellman, United States
Oscar State, Great Britain
Ben Weider, Canada and United States
Joe Weider, Canada
Wrestling
Boris Maksovich Gurevich, Soviet Union
Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevich, Soviet Union
Nikolaus “Mickey” Hirschl, Austria
Karoly Karpati, Hungary
Fred Oberlander, Canada and Europe
Yakiv Punkin, Ukraine
Richard Weisz, Hungary
Henry Wittenberg, United States
Lifetime Achievement Award
Sam Sharrow, 1992
David Pincus, 1993
Karl Ribstein, 1994
Monty Hall, 1995
Yariv Oren, 1996
Alan Sherman, 1997
Moshe Rashkes, 1998
Fred Worms, 1999
Joseph Luttenberg, 2000
Robert Spivak, 2001
Uri Afek, 2002
Lester Fein, 2003
Shimon Mizrahi, 2004
Sidney Greenberg, 2005
Alex Gilady, 2006
Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer, 2007
R. Stephen Rubin, 2008
Michael Kevehazi, 2009
Moshe Theumim, 2010
Robert Levy, 2011
Michel Grun, 2012
William Steerman, 2013
Harry Swimmer, 2014
Robert Kraft, 2015
Uri Schaefer, 2016
Victor Vaisman, 2017
Joseph Siegman, 2018
Roy Salomon, 2019
IJSHOF Chairman’s Award of Excellence
Samuel P. Sporn, 2010
Teddy Kaplan, 2011
Reuven Heller, 2012
Zohar Sharon, 2013
Anita Shkedi, 2015
Arie Rosenzweig, 2016
Lenny Silberman, 2017
About the Hall of Fame
Wingate Institute
Distinguished Authorities on Sports
Hall of Fame Gifts and Benefactors
Jewish Olympic Medalists
The Maccabiah Games
The Munich Eleven
