The Chosen Game: A Jewish Basketball History

by Charley Rosen

A few years after its invention by James Naismith, basketball became the primary sport in the crowded streets of the Jewish neighborhood on New York's Lower East Side. Participating in the new game was a quick and enjoyable way to become Americanized. Jews not only dominated the sport for the next fifty-plus years but were also instrumental in modernizing the game. Barney Sedran was considered the best player in the country at the City College of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803255438
• ISBN13: 9780803255432
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"