Stars in the ring : Jewish champions in the golden age of boxing : a photographic history /

Stars in the ring : Jewish champions in the golden age of boxing : a photographic history /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Silver, Mike, 1945-
Imprint:	Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Jewish boxers -- Biography. Jewish boxers -- Pictorial works. Boxing -- History. Boxing -- History -- Pictorial works. Boxing. Jewish boxers. Biographies. History. Pictorial works.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13511475

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ISBN:	9781630761400 1630761400 9781630761394
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Summary:	In the period from 1901 to 1939, 29 Jewish boxers were recognized as world champions and more than 160 Jewish boxers ranked among the top contenders in their respective weight divisions. Stars in the Ring, by renowned boxing historian Mike Silver, presents this vibrant social history in the first illustrated encyclopedic compendium of its kind.
Other form:	Print version: Silver, Mike, 1945- Stars in the ring. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016] 9781630761394

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments; key to abbreviations; weight divisions; introduction; chapter 1 bare-knuckle bruisers; chapter 2 the melting pot sport; chapter 3 pioneers of pugilism: the early queensberry era, 1892-1919; chapter 4 golden age gladiators: 1920-1940; chapter 5 war and peace: 1941-1963; chapter 6 not your grandfather's sport: boxing from the 1960s to the present; appendix; endnotes; bibliography; index.