International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
Encyclopedia
The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame was opened July 7, 1981, in Netanya
, Israel
. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere around the world.
It is located on the campus of the Wingate Institute
for Physical Education and Sport. It has inducted over 300 athletes and sportspersons representing 25 countries. The Hall elects new honorees each year, with submissions due December 1 for votes for the following year.
The Hall was founded by Joseph M. Siegman, a television producer
and writer who lives in Beverly Hills, California
. He chaired the Hall from 1981 to 1989, and later served as chairman of its Selection Committee.
The IJSHoF is separate from the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, an American hall of fame
that honors only American
Jews.
Netanya
Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...
, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere around the world.
It is located on the campus of the Wingate Institute
Wingate Institute
The Wingate Institute is a sports training facility located south of Netanya, Israel, established in 1957. Named after Orde Wingate, the facility serves as the host facility for numerous Israeli national teams as well as a military training base....
for Physical Education and Sport. It has inducted over 300 athletes and sportspersons representing 25 countries. The Hall elects new honorees each year, with submissions due December 1 for votes for the following year.
The Hall was founded by Joseph M. Siegman, a television producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...
and writer who lives in Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills is an affluent city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. With a population of 34,109 at the 2010 census, up from 33,784 as of the 2000 census, it is home to numerous Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together...
. He chaired the Hall from 1981 to 1989, and later served as chairman of its Selection Committee.
The IJSHoF is separate from the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, an American hall of fame
Hall of Fame
A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...
that honors only American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Jews.
Inductees
| Name | Country | Field | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harold Abrahams Harold Abrahams Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, was a British athlete of Jewish origin. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.-Early life:... (deceased) |
 United Kingdom |
Track & Field | 1981 |
| Amy Alcott Amy Alcott Amy Alcott is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1975, and won five major championships and 29 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.... |
 United States |
Golf | 2000 |
| Joe Alexander (deceased) | United States |
American Football | 1985 |
| Mel Allen Mel Allen Mel Allen was an American sportscaster, best known for his long tenure as the primary play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees. During the peak of his career in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Allen was arguably the most prominent member of his profession, his voice familiar to millions... |
United States |
Media | 1980 |
| Lyle Alzado Lyle Alzado Lyle Martin Alzado was a professional American football defensive lineman of the National Football League famous for his intense and intimidating style of play.... (deceased) |
United States |
American Football | 2008 |
| Yael Arad Yael Arad Yael Arad is an Israeli judoka.She was the first Israeli to win an Olympic medal. She is widely recognized as one of Israel's most successful athletes and is credited with bringing judo into the athletic mainstream.... |
 Israel |
Judo | 2010 |
| Ray Arcel Ray Arcel Ray Arcel was a boxing trainer who was active from the 1920s through the 1980s. He trained eighteen world champions.... |
United States |
Boxing | 1992 |
| Gerry Ashworth | United States |
Track & Field | 2001 |
| Abe Attell Abe Attell Abraham Washington "Abe" Attell , known in the boxing world as Abe "The Little Hebrew" Attell, was a boxer who became known for his record-setting six-year reign as World Featherweight Champion... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1983 |
| Arnold "Red" Auerbach Red Auerbach Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was an American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Boston Celtics. After he retired from coaching, he served as president and front office executive of the Celtics until his death... |
United States |
Basketball | 1979 |
| Albert Axelrod Albert Axelrod Albert Axelrod, known as Albie, , was an American foil fencer... |
United States |
Fencing | 1993 |
| Arthur Baar Arthur Baar Arthur Baar was an Austrian manager who served as vice president of the famed SC Hakoah Wien in Austria. After the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Baar emigrated to Palestine where he was instrumental in building football in the country, and was national team manager during 1940.-... |
 Austria |
Association Football | 1982 |
| Aron "Ali" Bacher Ali Bacher Aron "Ali" Bacher is a former South African Test cricketer and an administrator of the United Cricket Board of South Africa.-Biography:... |
 South Africa |
Cricket | 1991 |
| William Bachrach (deceased) | United States |
Swimming coach | 1994 |
| Max Baer (deceased) | United States |
Boxing | 2010 |
| Sam Balter Sam Balter Samuel "Sam" Balter, Jr. was an American basketball player.-Career:He competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics... |
United States |
Basketball/Media | 1994 |
| Viktor (Győző) Barna (né Braun) Viktor Barna Viktor Győző Barna was a Hungarian and British champion table tennis player.-Personal life:... (deceased) |
 Hungary/ United Kingdom |
Table Tennis | 1981 |
| Herman Barron Herman Barron Herman Barron was an American professional golfer best known for being the first Jewish golfer to win a PGA Tour event.-Biography:... (deceased) |
United States |
Golf | 1993 |
| István Barta István Barta István Barta was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, in the 1928 Summer Olympics, and in the 1932 Summer Olympics.... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Water Polo | 1998 |
| Harris Barton Harris Barton Harris Scott Barton is a former American football offensive lineman who played for the San Francisco 49ers.-Early life:... |
United States |
American Football | 2009 |
| Benny Bass Benny Bass Benny Bass, known as "Little Fish," was an American boxer.... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1994 |
| Doug Beal Doug Beal Doug Beal is an American volleyball player and coach, the current USA Volleyball CEO, and a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.- Education :... |
United States |
Volleyball | 2001 |
| Adriana Behar Adriana Behar Adriana Brandão Behar is one of the most outstanding volleyball players of her generation.... |
 Brazil |
Beach Volleyball | 2006 |
| László Bellák (deceased) | Hungary |
Table Tennis | 1995 |
| Carina Benninga Carina Benninga Carina Marguerite Benninga is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 158 international matches for The Netherlands hockey team, in which she scored 25 goals. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 1984 Summer Olympics and also won a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics... |
 Netherlands |
Field Hockey | 2000 |
| Senda Berenson (deceased) | United States |
Basketball | 1987 |
| Jackie "Kid" Berg Jack Kid Berg Judah Bergman, known as Jack Kid Berg or Jackie Kid Berg , was an English boxer born in the East End of London.-Biography:Judah Bergman was born in Romford Street near Cable Street, St George in the East, Stepney... (deceased) |
United Kingdom |
Boxing | 1993 |
| Isaac Berger Isaac Berger Isaac "Ike" Berger was an Olympic weightlifter for the United States. He holds 23 world weightlifting records, and is a 12-time United States national titleholder.-Early life:... |
United States |
Weightlifting | 1980 |
| Samuel Berger Samuel Berger (boxer) Samuel Berger was an American professional heavyweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century.He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in San Francisco, California.-Olympics:... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1985 |
| Richard Bergmann Richard Bergmann Richard Bergmann was an Austrian and British table tennis player. Winner of seven World Championships, including four Singles, one Men's Doubles, two Team's titles and 22 medals in total.-Tennis career:... (deceased) |
Austria |
Table Tennis | 1982 |
| Jack bernstein (né John Dodick) Jack Bernstein Jack Bernstein, also known as "John Dodick," "Kid Murphy," and Young Murphy," was an American boxer. He was World Junior lightweight Champion, with the title taken from and later lost to Johnny Dundee Jack bernstein exposed zionists and was murdered by mossad.... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 2000 |
| Kenny Bernstein Kenny Bernstein Kenny Bernstein is an American drag racer and former NASCAR and IndyCar team owner. He is nicknamed the "Bud King" for his success in the Budweiser King dragster, he has also been nicknamed "The King of Speed," because he was the first driver to break 300 miles per hour in the standing-start... |
United States |
Auto Racing | 2006 |
| Morris "Whitey" Bimstein (deceased) | United States |
Boxing | 2008 |
| Arthur Bluethenthal Arthur Bluethenthal Arthur Bluethenthal, nicknamed "Bluey" , was an All American football player for Princeton University, who died in combat fighting for France in World War I.-Early life:... (deceased) |
United States |
American Football | 1997 |
| Walter Blum Walter Blum Walter "Mousey" Blum is a retired Hall of Fame jockey.A horse racing fan from boyhood, in his teens Blum began working as a racetrack hotwalker. Despite being blind in his right eye from the age of two, in 1953 he embarked on a career as a jockey, riding his first winner on July 29 at Saratoga... |
United States |
Horse Racing | 1991 |
| György Bródy György Bródy György Bródy was a Hungarian water polo player.-Career:At the 1928 Summer Olympics he was a reserve player of the Hungarian water polo team, but did not compete in a match of the 1928 tournament.He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he was part of the... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Water Polo | 1982 |
| Tal Brody Tal Brody Tal Brody is an American-Israeli former basketball player, and current Goodwill Ambassador of Israel, who lives in Israel. Brody was drafted # 12 in the National Basketball Association draft, but chose to pass up an NBA career to instead play basketball in Israel... |
Israel |
Basketball | 1996 |
| Larry Brown Larry Brown (basketball) Lawrence Harvey "Larry" Brown is an American basketball coach and former player. He most recently served as head coach of the National Basketball Association's Charlotte Bobcats.... |
United States |
Basketball | 1990 |
| Ellen Burka Ellen Burka Ellen Burka, CM is a Dutch former figure skater and a Canadian figure skating coach. She was the coach for Toller Cranston, Karen Magnussen, and her daughter Petra Burka.... |
 Canada |
Figure Skating | 2010 |
| Angela Buxton Angela Buxton Angela Buxton is an English tennis player. She won the women's doubles title at both the French Championships and Wimbledon in 1956 with Althea Gibson.-Tennis accomplishments:... |
United Kingdom |
Tennis | 1981 |
| Alain Calmat Alain Calmat Alain Calmat is a French former competitive figure skater, surgeon, and politician. He is the 1964 Olympic silver medalist, the 1965 World Champion, the 1962–1964 European Champion, and the 1958 & 1962–1965 French national champion.-Career:Calmat started skating at the age of nine... |
 Early Modern France |
Figure Skating | 1987 |
| Zefania Carmel Zefania Carmel Zefania Carmel was an Israeli yachting world champion.-Yachting career:As teammates on Israel’s Zevulun Bat-Yam Club, the two won the Israeli Championship in 1966 in the 420-Class, and topped an international field of competition in the same event on New York’s Hudson River in August 1967.Carmel... (deceased) |
Israel |
Yachting | 1982 |
| Joe Choynski Joe Choynski Joseph Bartlett "Joe" Choynski was an American boxer who fought professionally from 1888 to 1904.-Boxing career:"Chrysanthemum Joe", the son of a Polish immigrant that settled in California in 1867, weighed no more than 176 lb throughout his career but regularly fought heavyweights. He was... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1991 |
| Robert Cohen Robert Cohen (boxer) Robert Cohen was a French boxer. Cohen was world bantamweight champion from 1954 to 1956.-Boxing career:... |
 Algeria |
Boxing | 1988 |
| Lillian Copeland Lillian Copeland Lillian Copeland was an American athlete, who excelled in weight throwing. She has been called "the most successful female discus thrower in U.S... (deceased) |
United States |
Track & Field | 1979 |
| Howard Cosell Howard Cosell Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these... |
United States |
Media | 1993 |
| Harry Danning Harry Danning Harry Danning, nicknamed Harry the Horse was a professional baseball player. He played his entire Major League Baseball career as a catcher for the New York Giants, and was considered one of the top defensive catchers of his era. He batted and threw right-handed... |
United States |
Baseball | 2000 |
| Pierre Darmon Pierre Darmon Pierre Darmon was a French tennis player.In 1963, he reached his highest world ranking, # 8. He was also ranked in the top 10 worldwide in 1958 and 1964.-Tennis career:... |
Early Modern France |
Tennis | 1997 |
| Umberto De Morpurgo Umberto De Morpurgo Baron Umberto Louis De Morpurgo was a male tennis player from Italy.De Morpurgo was born in Trieste when it was part of Austria, but became an Italian citizen when the city changed hands after World War I. He was ranked in the World’s Top 10 1928-30 —- 9th in 1928, 10th in 1929, and 8th in 1930... (deceased) |
 Italy |
Tennis | 1993 |
| Barney Dreyfuss Barney Dreyfuss Bernhard "Barney" Dreyfuss was an executive in Major League Baseball who owned the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise from 1900 to 1932.... (deceased) |
United States |
Baseball | 1979 |
| Dutch Olympians, 1928 Netherlands at the 1928 Summer Olympics The Netherlands was the host nation for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. 264 competitors, 219 men and 45 women, took part in 103 events in 17 sports.- Gold:* Bep van Klaveren — Boxing, Featherweight... |
Netherlands |
Gymnastics | 1997 |
| "Dutch Sam" Elias (deceased) | Boxing | 2011 | |
| Nikolai Epshteen (deceased) |  Russia |
Ice Hockey | 2001 |
| Charlotte Epstein Charlotte Epstein Charlotte "Eppie" Epstein was known as "Mother of Women's Swimming in America" after she founded the Women's Swimming Association and coached the Women's Olympic Swimming Team in the 1920s.-Career:... (deceased) |
United States |
Swimming | 1982 |
| László Fábián László Fábián (canoer) László Fábián is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. He won a gold medal in the K-2 10000 m at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne... |
Hungary |
Canoeing | 1996 |
| Jackie Fields (né Jacob Finklestein) Jackie Fields Jackie Fields was an American professional boxer who won two world championship titles.-Personal life:... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1979 |
| Herbert Flam Herbert Flam ----Herbert Flam was an American tennis player.Considered to be one of the best male Jewish tennis players in history, he was ranked World No... (deceased) |
United States |
Tennis | 1992 |
| Alfred Flatow Alfred Flatow Alfred Flatow was a German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was Jewish.... (deceased) |
 Germany |
Gymnastics | 1981 |
| Gustav Flatow Gustav Flatow Gustav Felix Flatow was a German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.... (deceased) |
Germany |
Gymnastics | 1989 |
| Nat Fleischer Nat Fleischer Nathaniel Stanley Fleischer was a noted American boxing writer and collector. Fleischer inaugurated in 1922, encouraged by Tex Rickard, the Ring Magazine publication... (deceased) |
United States |
Media | 1985 |
| Bobby Frankel Bobby Frankel Robert Julian Frankel was an American thoroughbred race horse trainer whom ESPN called "one of the most successful and respected trainers in the history of thoroughbred racing." He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1995, and was a five-time winner of the Eclipse... (deceased) |
United States |
Horse Racing | 2011 |
| Gal Fridman Gal Fridman Gal Fridman is an Israeli windsurfer and Olympic gold medalist.He was born in Karkur, Israel, and lives in nearby kibbutz Sdot Yam.Fridman won a bronze medal in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics, and a gold medal in the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics... |
Israel |
Sailing | 2005 |
| Benny Friedman Benny Friedman Benjamin "Benny" Friedman was an American football quarterback who played for the University of Michigan , Cleveland Bulldogs , Detroit Wolverines , New York Giants , and Brooklyn Dodgers .He is generally considered the first great passer in professional football... (deceased) |
United States |
American Football | 1979 |
| Max Friedman (deceased) | United States |
Basketball | 1994 |
| Jenő Fuchs Jeno Fuchs Dr. Jenő Fuchs was a Hungarian Olympic champion sabre fencer.-Fencing career:... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Fencing | 1982 |
| Tamás Gábor Tamás Gábor Tamás Gábor was a Hungarian épée fencer.-World championships:In World Championships competition, Gabor’s individual medals were a bronze in 1961 and a silver in 1962... |
Hungary |
Fencing | 1996 |
| János Garay János Garay (fencer) János Garay was a Hungarian fencer, and one of the best sabre fencers in the world in the 1920s.... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Fencing | 1990 |
| Mitch Gaylord Mitch Gaylord Mitchell Jay Gaylord , is an American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.Gaylord was born in Van Nuys, California, son of Fred and Linda Gaylord. While attending UCLA, he won the All-Around in the 1983 and 1984 U.S... |
United States |
Gymnastics | 1988 |
| Aaron "Okey" Geffen | South Africa |
Rugby Union | 1998 |
| Dr. Oszkár Gerde Oszkár Gerde Dr. Oszkár Gerde, also spelled "Oskar" , born in Budapest, Hungary, was a Hungarian sabre fencer.-Olympics:... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Fencing | 1989 |
| Sid Gillman Sid Gillman Sidney "Sid" Gillman was an American football player, coach, executive, and innovator. Gillman's insistence on stretching the football field by throwing deep downfield passes, instead of short passes to running backs or wide receivers at the sides of the line of scrimmage, was instrumental in... |
United States |
American Football | 1991 |
| Sir Arthur A. Gold | United Kingdom |
Contributor | 1987 |
| Bill Goldberg Bill Goldberg Goldberg earned a scholarship to play for the University of Georgia Bulldogs football team where he served as a defensive tackle. He was taken in the 11th round, with the 302nd overall selection, in the 1990 NFL Draft.... |
United States |
Professional Wrestling | 2010 |
| Marshall Goldberg Marshall Goldberg Marshall Goldberg was an American football halfback with the Chicago Cardinals in the National Football League.- Football career :Goldberg was born in Elkins, West Virginia... |
United States |
American Football | 1980 |
| Charles "Buckets" Goldenberg Charles Goldenberg Charles R. "Buckets" Goldenberg was an American football player. He is often credited as the originator of the draw play.... (deceased) |
United States |
American Football | 1993 |
| Israel Charley Goldman Charley Goldman Charley Goldman was a famed boxing trainer who trained five world champions. Goldman's most famous pupil was the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, Rocky Marciano.... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1999 |
| Margie Goldstein-Engle Margie Goldstein-Engle Margie Goldstein-Engle is an American show jumping equestrian, and a 10-time American Grandprix Association Rider of the Year.-Early and personal life:... |
United States |
Equestrian | 2009 |
| Reuven "Ruby" Goldstein Ruby Goldstein "Ruby" Goldstein , the "Jewel Of The Ghetto," was an American boxer and prize fight referee.-Boxing career:Before he became a referee, Goldstein boxed professionally from 1925 to 1937... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1995 |
| Sándor Gombos Sándor Gombos Dr. Sándor Gombos was a Hungarian fencer.-World Championships:... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Fencing | 1997 |
| Aleksandr Gomelsky |  Soviet Union |
Basketball | 1981 |
| Sid Gordon Sid Gordon Sidney "Sid" Gordon , known as "Sid," was a stocky, powerfully built American right-handed Major League Baseball outfielder, third baseman, and first baseman.... (deceased) |
United States |
Baseball | 2010 |
| Maria Gorokhovskaya Maria Gorokhovskaya Maria Kondratyevna Gorokhovskaya was a Ukrainian gymnast. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, she won seven medals, the most medals won by any woman in a single Olympics.... (deceased) |
Soviet Union |
Gymnastics | 1991 |
| Brian Gottfried Brian Gottfried Brian Edward Gottfried is a retired tennis player from the United States who won 25 singles titles and 54 doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest ranking on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour on June 19, 1977, when he became World No.... |
United States |
Tennis | 1999 |
| Eddie Gottlieb (deceased) | United States |
Basketball | 1980 |
| Milton Green Milton Green This article is about the American sportsperson. For other uses, see Milton Green Milton Green was a world record holder in high hurdles during the 1930s.... |
United States |
Track & Field | 1997 |
| Hank Greenberg Hank Greenberg Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg , nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank" or "The Hebrew Hammer," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s. A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation... |
United States |
Baseball | 1979 |
| Abie Grossfeld Abie Grossfeld Abie Grossfeld is a former American gymnast and current American gymnastics coach.Grossfeld has represented the United States as a gymnastics competitor or coach in seven Olympic Games, seven World Championships, six Maccabiah Games, and five Pan American Games — in addition to many other major... |
United States |
Gymnastics | 1992 |
| Gary Gubner Gary Gubner Gary Jay Gubner was an American shotputter, weightlifter, and discus hurler. He is known for setting various shot put records, including a 53-foot throw with a 16-lb... |
United States |
Track & Field | 2001 |
| George Gulack George Gulack George Julius Gulack was an American gymnast and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles where he received a gold medal in rings.Gulack died in July 1987 at the age of 82.-See also:... |
United States |
Gymnastics | 1984 |
| Boris Max Gurevich | Soviet Union |
Wrestling | 1987 |
| Boris Mikhailovich Gurevich | Soviet Union |
Wrestling | 1982 |
| Béla Guttmann Béla Guttmann Béla Guttmann was a Jewish Hungarian footballer and coach. He played as a midfielder for MTK Hungária FC, SC Hakoah Wien, Hungary and several clubs in the United States. However he is perhaps best remembered as a coach and manager of some the world’s leading football teams, including AC Milan, São... |
Hungary |
Association Football | 1981 |
| Sir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann Ludwig Guttmann Sir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann CBE, FRS was a German neurologist who founded the Paralympic Games while living in England, and is considered one of the founding fathers of organized physical activities for people with a disability.... (deceased) |
Germany United Kingdom |
Contributor | 1981 |
| Alfréd Hajos-Guttmann Alfréd Hajós Alfréd Hajós was a Hungarian swimmer and architect. He was the first modern Olympic swimming champion and the first Olympic champion of Hungary.-Biography:... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Swimming | 1981 |
| Hakoah-Vienna | Austria |
Association Football | 1982 |
| Alphonse Halimi Alphonse Halimi Alphonse Halimi was a French boxer. He was nicknamed "la Petite Terreur."Time wrote of him: "Alphonse went to work with a street fighter's will. A grown-up guttersnipe from the back alleys of Algeria... |
Early Modern France ( Algeria) |
Boxing | 1989 |
| Sidney Halter Sydney Halter Gerald Sydney Halter, was a Canadian lawyer and the first commissioner of the Canadian Football League.-Biography:... |
Canada |
American Football | 2006 |
| Willie Harmatz | United States |
Horse Racing | 1999 |
| Johan Harmenberg Johan Harmenberg Johan Harmenberg is a Swedish epee fencer. Harmenberg completed two years of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, leaving his course early before returning to Sweden to pursue his fencing career.-Fencing career:He has won eight individual and/or team epee gold medals at... |
 Sweden |
Fencing | 1997 |
| Harry Harris Harry Harris (boxer) Harry Harris was an American boxer.Harris was World Bantamweight Champion in 1901–02.-Boxing career:Harris turned professional in 1896 at the age of 16.... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1996 |
| Sigmund Harris Sigmund Harris Sigmund "Sig" Harris was University of Minnesota’s All-American quarterback in 1902–04, for powerful teams under Dr. Henry L. Williams... (deceased) |
United States |
American Football | 1994 |
| Cecil Hart Cecil Hart Cecil Hart was a head coach of the Montreal Canadiens. He was born in Bedford, Quebec.Hart helped lead the team to three Stanley Cups, in 1924, 1930, and 1931... (deceased) |
Canada |
Ice Hockey | 1992 |
| Lew Hayman Lew Hayman Lewis Edward "Lew" Hayman was an American sports figure. He was one of the driving forces behind the Canadian Football League as coach, general manager, team president, and league president. As head coach, he was a five-time Grey Cup winner with three different teams... (deceased) |
Canada |
American Football | 2004 |
| Ladislav Hecht Ladislav Hecht Ladislav Hecht was a Jewish professional tennis player, well known for representing Czechoslovakia in the Davis Cup during the 1930s.... (deceased) |
 Czech Republic |
Tennis | 2005 |
| Julie Heldman Julie Heldman Julie Heldman is a retired American tennis player who won 22 professional tennis titles.In 1969 she was World No. 5, her highest career world ranking, and was ranked No. 2 in the U.S.-Tennis career:... |
United States |
Tennis | 2001 |
| Ben Helfgott Ben Helfgott Ben Helfgott is a British Holocaust survivor and former champion weightlifter.He was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs programme on 1 April 2007... |
United Kingdom |
Weightlifting | 1995 |
| Lilli Henoch Lilli Henoch Lilli Henoch was a German track and field athlete who set four world records and won 10 German national championships, in four different disciplines.... (deceased) |
Germany |
Track & Field | 1990 |
| Otto Herschmann Otto Herschmann Dr. Otto Herschmann was a Jewish Austrian swimmer, fencer, lawyer, and sport official. He is one of only three athletes to have won Olympic medals in different sports.-Olympic swimming career:... (deceased) |
Austria |
Swimming | 1989 |
| Victor Hershkowitz | United States |
Handball | 1991 |
| Nikolaus Hirschl (deceased) | Austria |
Wrestling | 1993 |
| Marty Hogan | United States |
Racquetball | 1996 |
| Marshall Holman Marshall Holman Marshall Holman is an American professional bowler primarily known for his success on the PBA Tour throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He also served as a color analyst alongside Mike Durbin on several ESPN and ESPN2 bowling telecasts from 1996–2001... |
United States |
Tenpin Bowling | 2006 |
| Nat Holman Nat Holman Nat Holman was one of the early pro basketball players and one of the game's most important innovators.-Career:... |
United States |
Basketball | 1979 |
| Ken Holtzman Ken Holtzman Kenneth Dale Holtzman is a left-handed former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the Chicago Cubs and Oakland Athletics... |
United States |
Baseball | 1995 |
| William "Red" Holzman Red Holzman William "Red" Holzman was an NBA basketball player and coach probably best known as the head coach of the New York Knicks from 1967 to 1982. Holzman helped lead the Knicks to two NBA Championships in 1970 and 1973, and was elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985... |
United States |
Basketball | 1988 |
| Sarah Hughes Sarah Hughes Sarah Elizabeth Hughes is an American figure skater. She is the 2002 Olympic gold medalist and 2001 World bronze medalist in ladies singles.-Personal life:... |
United States |
Figure Skating | 2005 |
| Maria Leontyana Itkina | Soviet Union |
Track & Field | 1991 |
| Joe Jacobi Joe Jacobi Joseph Bennet "Joe" Jacobi is an American slalom canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.-Career:Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold in the C-2 event at Barcelona in 1992.... |
United States |
Canoeing | 2005 |
| Hirsch Jacobs Hirsch Jacobs Hirsch Jacobs was an American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.Jacobs was the leading race-winning trainer in the United States 1933-39, 1941–44, the U.S. leading money-winning trainer, 1946, 1960, 1965, and the U.S. leading money-winning breeder, 1964-67... (deceased) |
United States |
Horse Racing | 1979 |
| Jimmy Jacobs Jimmy Jacobs (handballer) James Leslie 'Jimmy' Jacobs was an American handball player, boxing manager, Academy Award nominee and comic book and fight film collector.-Handball:... |
United States |
Handball | 1979 |
| Irving Jaffee Irving Jaffee Irving Warren Jaffee was an American speed skater who won two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there along with his compatriot Jack Shea.-Early life:Jaffee, who was Jewish, was born to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Russia in 1896... |
United States |
Speed Skating | 1979 |
| Allan Jay Allan Jay Allan Louis Neville Jay MBE was a British foil and épée fencer.One of the greatest fencers in British history, Jay competed in five Olympiads in both épée and foil, winning two medals.-National championships:... |
United Kingdom |
Fencing | 1985 |
| Endre Kabos Endre Kabos Endre Kabos , born in Nagyvárad, Hungary, was a Hungarian sabre fencer.-Fencing career:Kabos began fencing after receiving a fencing outfit as a birthday present. Although he hid the outfit in his wardrobe, a friend found it and teased him. The following day, he enrolled in a fencing club just to... |
Hungary |
Fencing | 1986 |
| Rena Kanokogi (aka Rusty Glickman) Rena Kanokogi Rena "Rusty" Kanokogi , née Glickman, was a renowned Jewish-American judo expert from Brooklyn, New York. In 1959, disguised as a man, she won a medal at a YMCA judo tournament, but had to return it after acknowledging that she was a woman... (deceased) |
United States |
Judo | 2011 |
| Louis "Kid" Kaplan (deceased) | United States |
Boxing | 1986 |
| Károly Kárpáti Károly Kárpáti Károly Kárpáti was a Jewish Hungarian Olympic wrestling champion.-Career:He won a gold medal in 1936 in the Lightweight Freestyle class... |
Hungary |
Wrestling | 1994 |
| Gennadi Karponosov | Russia |
Figure Skating | 2001 |
| Elias Katz Elias Katz Elias Katz was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the 3000 metre steeple chase.He was Jewish, and born in Turku. He competed for Finland in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France in the 3000 metre steeple chase where he won the silver medal... (deceased) |
 Finland |
Track & Field | 1981 |
| Ágnes Keleti (Klein) Ágnes Keleti Ágnes Keleti is a retired Hungarian artistic gymnast. The winner of 10 Olympic medals including five gold medals, she is considered to be one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes of all time. She was the most successful athlete at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-Career:Keleti is Jewish, and... |
Hungary |
Gymnastics | 1981 |
| Abel Kiviat Abel Kiviat Abel Richard Kiviat was an American middle distance track event middle distance runner.-Career:... |
United States |
Track & Field | 1984 |
| Traute Kleinova (deceased) |  Czechoslovakia |
Table Tennis | 1994 |
| Ilana Kloss Ilana Kloss Ilana Sheryl Kloss is a former professional tennis player and the commissioner of World Team Tennis.-Tennis career:Kloss was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Before turning professional, in 1972 she won the Wimbledon juniors singles title. In 1974 she won U.S... |
South Africa |
Tennis | 2010 |
| Béla Komjádi Béla Komjádi Béla Komjádi was a Hungarian water polo player and coach.-Water polo coaching career:... (HU) (deceased) |
Hungary |
Water Polo | 1992 |
| Zsuzsa Körmöczy (Suzy Kormoczy) Zsuzsa Körmöczy Zsuzsa Körmöczy was a female tennis player from Hungary. She won the singles title at the 1958 French Championships at the age of 33 and reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1958... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Tennis | 2007 |
| Sandy Koufax Sandy Koufax Sanford "Sandy" Koufax is a former left-handed baseball pitcher who played his entire 12-year Major League Baseball career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers... |
United States |
Baseball | 1979 |
| Lenny Krayzelburg Lenny Krayzelburg Lenny Krayzelburg is an American backstroke swimmer, and Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder. He swam in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. He won a total of 4 Olympic gold medals.... |
United States |
Swimming | 2005 |
| Solly Krieger Solly Krieger Solly Krieger was an American middleweight boxer who fought from 1928-41.-Boxing career:A Golden Gloves amateur champion, Krieger turned professional in 1928.... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1997 |
| Grigori Kriss | Soviet Union |
Fencing | 1989 |
| Lily Kronberger Lily Kronberger Lily Kronberger , also spelled Lili Kronberger, was a Hungarian figure skater competitive during the early years of modern figure skating... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Figure Skating | 1983 |
| Alfred Kuchevsky Alfred Kuchevsky Alfred Iosifovich Kuchevsky was a Russian ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. Olympic champion 1956, bronze 1960. Twice World champion.He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. He was Jewish.... (deceased) |
Soviet Union/ Russia |
Ice Hockey | 2011 |
| Henry Laskau Henry Laskau Helmut Laskau has been called the greatest racewalker in U.S. track and field history. Born in Berlin, Germany Laskau was a top distance runner in his native Germany before being forced to leave that country in by the Nazis in 1938. He moved to the United States and served in the U.S... |
United States |
Track & Field | 1996 |
| Lydia Lazarov Lydia Lazarov -Yachting career:Lazarov and Zefania Carmel were teammates in the Zevulun Bateam Club in Israel. They won the 1966 Israeli 420-class national championship.Lazarov and Carmel also won the 1969 world title in the Team 420 Sailing Class, at Sandhem, Sweden... |
Israel |
Yachting | 1982 |
| Keren Leibovitch Keren Leibovitch Keren Or Leibovitch is an Israeli champion Paralympic swimmer.Leibovitch is a three-time world champion, a five-time European champion, a holder of three world records , and an eight-time Paralympic medal winner... |
Israel |
Swimming | 2008 |
| Benny Leonard Benny Leonard Benny Leonard was an American lightweight boxer. He was named as number 8 on Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years and number 7 on ESPN's 50 Greatest Boxers of All-Time.... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1979 |
| Battling Levinsky (Barney Lebrowitz) Battling Levinsky Barney Williams , was light heavyweight boxing champion of the world from 1916 to 1920.-Boxing career:... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1982 |
| Edward L. Levy (deceased) | United Kingdom |
Weightlifting | 1988 |
| Marv Levy Marv Levy Marvin Daniel Levy is a former American and Canadian football coach, front office executive and author.He is a former professional football coach, in the CFL as head coach of the Montreal Alouettes , and in the NFL as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills , coaching the Bills... |
United States |
American Football | 1998 |
| Fred Lewis Fred Lewis (handball) Fred Lewis is an American former handball player.Lewis is Jewish, and was born in The Bronx, New York. Both of his parents played handball, and he learned to play handball by playing it off building walls in the Bronx. He grew up primarily playing 1-wall handball, and played his first tournament... |
United States |
Handball | 2011 |
| Harry Lewis Harry Lewis (boxer) Harry Lewis , was an American champion boxer. Lewis was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 and to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008.-Link:***... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 2002 |
| Ted "Kid" Lewis (deceased) | United Kingdom |
Boxing | 1983 |
| Jason Lezak Jason Lezak Jason Edward Lezak is an American Olympic swimmer, winner of 4 Olympic gold medals.He formerly swam for Irvine Novaquatics. He graduated from Irvine High School in 1994, and then from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. He is a member of the Rose Bowl Aquatics swim club... |
United States |
Swimming | 2006 |
| Mort Lindsey Mort Lindsey Mort Lindsey, is an orchestrator, composer, pianist, conductor and musical director for Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Merv Griffin.Lindsey attended Newark Arts High School.... |
United States |
Bowling | 1997 |
| Alexandre Lippmann Alexandre Lippmann Alexandre Lippmann was a French Olympic epee fencer.-Olympics:He competed in 3 Olympiads for France, winning 5 medals, including 2 golds.... (deceased) |
Early Modern France |
Fencing | 1984 |
| Harry Litwack Harry Litwack Harold "Chief" Litwack was a college men's basketball coach. He served as head coach of Temple University from 1947 to 1973, compiling a 373-193 record.... |
United States |
Basketball | 1980 |
| Benny Lom Benny Lom Benjamin "Benny" Lom was an American college football player who played for three seasons for the University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears, and was best known for his attempt to stop his own teammate Roy Riegels after Riegels ran the ball 69 yards in the wrong direction during the 1929 Rose... (deceased) |
United States |
American Football | 1996 |
| Sid Luckman Sid Luckman Sidney Luckman, known as Sid Luckman, was an American football quarterback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League from 1939 to 1950... |
United States |
American Football | 1979 |
| Tatiana Lysenko Tatiana Lysenko Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko is a Soviet and Ukrainian gymnast, who had her senior competitive career from 1990 to 1994.She is Jewish. Tatiana was known for her exceptional difficulty level and haughty style on the floor... |
 Ukraine |
Gymnastics | 2002 |
| Joe Magidsohn Joe Magidsohn Joseph "Joe" Magidsohn was an American football player and official. He played halfback for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1909 and 1910 and was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp in 1909 and a first-team All-American in 1910... (deceased) |
United States |
American Football | 1999 |
| Gyula Mandl (deceased) | Hungary |
Association Football | 1982 |
| Valentin Mankin | Soviet Union |
Yachting | 1987 |
| Al McCoy Al McCoy (boxer) Al McCoy was a boxing world middleweight champion from 1914 to 1917. McCoy’s professional record: 157 bouts — won 99 , lost 40, no-decisions 18.-Biography:... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1989 |
| Hugo Meisl Hugo Meisl Hugo Meisl , brother of the journalist Willy Meisl, was the multi-lingual football coach of the famous Austrian 'Wunderteam' of the early 1930s, as well as a referee.-Background:... (deceased) |
Austria |
Association Football | 1981 |
| Fania Melnik | Soviet Union |
Track & Field | 1984 |
| Daniel Mendoza Daniel Mendoza Daniel Mendoza was an English prizefighter, who was boxing champion of England 1792–95.-Success:... (deceased) |
United Kingdom |
Boxing | 1981 |
| Dr. Ferenc Mező Ferenc Mezo Ferenc Mező was a Hungarian poet.He was born in Pölöskefő, Zala County and died in Budapest.... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Contributor | 1986 |
| Mark Midler Mark Midler Mark Petrovich Midler was a Soviet Russian foil fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games.-Fencing career:Midler was a member of the USSR National Fencing Team between 1951 and 1967... |
Soviet Union |
Fencing | 1983 |
| Walter Miller Walter Miller (jockey) Walter Miller was an American jockey.Miller was Jewish, and was born in Brooklyn, New York.He rode in his first race at age 14. At the age of 16, he won 388 races , and between the years 1905 and 1908 he won 1,094 races. He led the U.S... (deceased) |
United States |
Horse Racing | 1983 |
| Ron Mix Ron Mix Ronald Jack Mix , in Los Angeles, California was an American football player.Mix attended USC, and upon graduation played right tackle and guard for the American Football League's Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers and the NFL Oakland Raiders .- College career :A graduate of the University of Southern... |
United States |
American Football | 1980 |
| Ivor Montagu Ivor Montagu The Honorable Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu was a British filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player and apparent Soviet spy... |
United Kingdom |
Table Tennis | 1984 |
| Samuel Mosberg Samuel Mosberg Samuel A. Mosberg , born in New York City, was an American lightweight professional boxer who competed in the early 1920s.-Boxing career:... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1985 |
| Armand Mouyal Armand Mouyal Armand Mouyal was a French epee fencer.-Fencing career:Born in Oran, Algeria , Mouyal began fencing in the early 1950s, and was as skilled with the foil as with the épée .-National Championships:Mouyal, a French police officer, captured French national Individual Épée titles in 1952,... |
Early Modern France |
Fencing | 1988 |
| Charles "Buddy" Myer Buddy Myer Charles Solomon "Buddy" Myer was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball from 1925 to 1941.An excellent hitter, he batted .300 or better in eight full seasons, and retired with a career average of .303. He walked more than twice as many times as he struck out... (deceased) |
United States |
Baseball | 1992 |
| Lon Myers Lon Myers Laurence Eugene "Lon" Myers was an American sprinter and middle distance runner.Myers won 28 national championships. He also set world records at 11 different distances, and held every American record for races 50 yards to one mile. Myers set the world quarter-mile record while running the final... (deceased) |
United States |
Track & Field | 1980 |
| Alfred Nakache Alfred Nakache Alfred Nakache was a French swimmer and water polo player. Nakache was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1993... (deceased) |
Early Modern France |
Swimming | 1993 |
| Paul Neumann Paul Neumann (swimmer) Paul Neumann was an Austrian swimmer and physician, who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and became the first Austrian gold medalist ever.-Biography:... (deceased) |
Austria |
Swimming | 1984 |
| Edward Newman Ed Newman Ed Newman is a former Offensive Guard who, from 1973 to 1984, played 12 seasons with the Miami Dolphins.-Early life:... |
United States |
American Football | 1995 |
| Harry Newman Harry Newman Harry Lawrence Newman was an American football quarterback who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines , the New York Giants , and the Brooklyn/Rochester Tigers .-College career:... |
United States |
American Football | 1992 |
| Tzvi Nishri (Orloff) (deceased) | Israel |
Contributor | 1981 |
| Sydney Nomis Syd Nomis Sydney "Syd" Nomis is a former South African national rugby union player who until 2001 held the record for most consecutive matches played for the Springboks... |
South Africa |
Rugby Union | 1999 |
| Grigori Novak (deceased) | Soviet Union |
Weightlifting | 1985 |
| Fred Oberlander Fred Oberlander Fred Oberlander was an Austrian, British, and Canadian wrestler.-Wrestling career:Between 1930 and 1950 he won two Austrian Junior wrestling titles, five French Heavyweight Championships, seven British Heavyweight Championships , and the 1950 Canadian Heavyweight crown.He also won the 1935 World... |
Canada |
Wrestling | 1991 |
| Tom Okker Tom Okker Thomas S. Okker is a former Dutch tennis player. He was ranked among the world's top 10 singles players for seven consecutive years, 1968–74, reaching a career high of world # 3 in 1969. He also was ranked World # 1 in doubles in 1969.-Tennis career:Okker was the Dutch champion from 1964 through... |
Netherlands |
Tennis | 2003 |
| Bob Olin Bob Olin Robert Lous "Bob" Olin was an American boxer.He won the World Light Heavyweight Championship.-Boxing career:In 1928 Olin won the New York City Golden Gloves Open Championship... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 2008 |
| Ivan Osiier (deceased) |  Denmark |
Fencing | 1986 |
| Victor "Young" Perez Victor Perez Victor "Young" Perez was a Sephardic Jew born in French Tunisia, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. He was born to Khmaïssa Perez a household goods salesman and Khaïlou René Perez. He was raised along with his four siblings in Dar-El Berdgana, the Jewish quarter of Tunis... (deceased) |
 Tunisia |
Boxing | 1986 |
| Attila Petschauer Attila Petschauer Attila Petschauer was a Jewish Hungarian Olympic fencer.-Fencing career:Born in Budapest, Petschauer was a member of the Hungarian fencing team in the 1928 and 1932 Olympics... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Fencing | 1985 |
| Philadelphia Sphas Philadelphia Sphas The Philadelphia Sphas, also written SPHAs and SPHAS, were a team that competed in the Eastern Basketball League and then the American Basketball League 1925-55. They played their home games in social halls and, from 1938, in the ballroom of the Broadwood Hotel... |
United States |
Basketball | 1996 |
| Lipman Pike Lip Pike Lipman Emanuel "Lip" Pike the "Iron Batter", was one of the stars of 19th century baseball in the United States. He was the first player to be revealed as a professional , as well as the first Jewish player... (deceased) |
United States |
Baseball | 1985 |
| Zhanna Pintusevich-Block Zhanna Pintusevich-Block Zhanna Pintusevich-Block is a sprinter who has competed in the Olympic Games.... |
Ukraine |
Track & Field | 2009 |
| Maurice Podoloff Maurice Podoloff Maurice Podoloff was a U.S. lawyer and basketball and ice hockey administrator. He was the first president of the National Basketball Association... (deceased) |
United States |
Basketball | 1989 |
| Daniel Prenn Daniel Prenn Dr. Daniel Prenn was a German and British tennis player. Prenn was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1981.-External links:**... |
Germany |
Tennis | 1981 |
| Myer Prinstein Myer Prinstein Myer Prinstein was an American athlete and member of the Irish American Athletic Club... (deceased) |
United States |
Track & Field | 1982 |
| Béla Rajki-Reich (HU) | Hungary |
Water Polo | 2000 |
| Mark Rakita Mark Rakita Mark Semenovich Rakita is a famed Russian sabreur and coach from the Soviet era.-Fencing career:Rakita started fencing at 14. He practiced daily for between three – six hours a day. A 1969 graduate of The Daghestan State Pedagogical Institute, Rakita earned the title of Master of the Sport in... |
Soviet Union |
Fencing | 1988 |
| Marilyn Ramenofsky Marilyn Ramenofsky Marilyn Ramenofsky was an American freestyle swimmer. She is currently a researcher at the University of California at Davis, studying the physiology and behavior of bird migration... |
United States |
Swimming | 1988 |
| Mauri Rose Mauri Rose Mauri Rose was an American racecar driver.He started from the pole position driving a Maserati in the 1941 Indianapolis 500, but spark plug problems put him out of the race after sixty laps. He then took over the Wetteroth/Offenhauser car being driven by Floyd Davis that had started in 17th place.... (deceased) |
United States |
Auto Racing | 2007 |
| Al Rosen Al Rosen Albert Leonard Rosen , nicknamed "Al", "Flip", and the "Hebrew Hammer", is a former American professional baseball player who was a third baseman and right-handed slugger in the Major Leagues for ten seasons in tthe 1940s and 1950s.He played his entire 10-year career with the Cleveland Indians in... |
United States |
Baseball | 1980 |
| Mel Rosen Mel Rosen Melvin "Mel" Rosen is an American former track coach.He was head coach of the Auburn University Tigers track team for 28 years, from 1963–91, during which time the team won four consecutive Southeastern Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships from 1977–80, and an outdoor track & field... |
United States |
Track & Field | 2004 |
| Harry "Coon" Rosen Harry Rosen Harry Rosen, CM is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Canadian luxury men's wear store Harry Rosen Inc.-Early life:Born and raised in Toronto, Rosen lived for a short time in Callander, Ontario. As a teenager he found a job at a tailoring factory for men's clothes... |
United States |
Softball | 1993 |
| Allen Rosenberg Allen Rosenberg (rower) Allen Perry Rosenberg is an American former rower and rowing coach. He won 12 international and national gold and silver medals as a rower, and teams he coached won more than 24 gold and silver medals in the Olympics and world championships.-Early life:Rosenberg, who is Jewish, was born in... |
United States |
Rowing | 1994 |
| Charlie Rosenberg (deceased) | United States |
Boxing | 1990 |
| Wilf Rosenberg Wilf Rosenberg Wilfred "Wilf" Rosenberg was a South African rugby union and rugby league player.He was nicknamed the Flying Dentist.He was the son of a rabbi.... |
South Africa |
Rugby Union | 1994 |
| Maxie Rosenbloom Maxie Rosenbloom Max Everitt Rosenbloom, known as Slapsie Maxie was an American boxer, actor, and television personality.-Life and career:... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1984 |
| Leonard Rosenbluth Lennie Rosenbluth Leonard Robert "Lennie" Rosenbluth is an American former basketball player.-Biography:... |
United States |
Basketball | 2003 |
| Albert Rosenfeld Albert Rosenfeld Albert Aaron Rosenfeld was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer, a national representative whose club career was played in Sydney and in England... (deceased) |
 Australia |
Rugby League | 2006 |
| Fanny Rosenfeld (deceased) | Canada |
Track & Field | 1982 |
| Barney Ross Barney Ross Barney Ross , born Beryl David Rosofsky, was a world champion boxer in three weight divisions and decorated veteran of World War II.-Early life:... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1979 |
| Victor Ross Victor Ross -Early life:Ross was Jewish, and was born in Kiszalo, Hungary.He graduated from Bridgeport High School in 1918. He then attended Syracuse University, where he played on both the soccer and lacrosse teams. He subsequently attended Syracuse Law School, where he earned an LLB degree in 1924... (deceased) |
United States |
Lacrosse | 1995 |
| Mark Roth Mark Roth Mark Roth is a former professional bowler. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. As a youth he resided in Meiers Corners, Staten Island, New York City, New York.-Bowling career:... |
United States |
Bowling | 1992 |
| Emília Rotter | Hungary |
Figure Skating | 1995 |
| Leon Rotman Leon Rotman Leon Rotman is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.-Life and sporting career:... |
 Kingdom of Romania |
Canoeing | 1981 |
| Angelica Rozeanu Angelica Rozeanu Angelica Rozeanu was a Romanian table tennis player of Jewish origin, and one of the most successful female table tennis players in the history of the sport.-Table tennis career:... (deceased) |
Kingdom of Romania |
Table Tennis | 1981 |
| Louis Rubenstein Louis Rubenstein Louis Rubenstein was a Canadian figure skater, sportsman and politician. Rubenstein is considered the "Father of Canadian Figure Skating." After retirement from skating in 1892, Rubenstein became involved in the sports of bowling, curling, and cycling... (deceased) |
Canada |
Figure Skating | 1981 |
| Mendy Rudolph Mendy Rudolph Marvin "Mendy" Rudolph was a professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association for 22 years, from 1953 to 1975. Regarded as one of the greatest officials in NBA history, Rudolph officiated 2,112 NBA games and was the first league referee to work 2,000 games... (deceased) |
United States |
Basketball | 1989 |
| Abe Saperstein Abe Saperstein Abraham M. Saperstein was an owner and coach of the Savoy Big Five, which later became the Harlem Globetrotters... (deceased) |
United States |
Basketball | 1979 |
| Miklós Sárkány Miklós Sárkány Miklós Sárkány was a Hungarian water polo player.-Career:He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Budapest.... |
Hungary |
Water Polo | 1990 |
| Richard Savitt | United States |
Tennis | 1979 |
| Dolph Schayes Dolph Schayes Adolph "Dolph" Schayes is a retired American professional basketball player and coach in the NBA. A top scorer and rebounder, he was a member of the 1955 NBA champion Syracuse Nationals and a 12-time All-Star.... |
United States |
Basketball | 1979 |
| Jody Scheckter Jody Scheckter Jody David Scheckter is a South African former auto racing driver, the Formula One World Drivers Champion.-Career:Scheckter was born in East London, South Africa and educated at Selborne College.-Formula One:... |
South Africa |
Auto Racing | 1983 |
| Corporal Isidore Schwartz Isadore “Corporal Izzy” Schwartz Isadore “Corporal Izzy” Schwartz was an American boxer.Schwartz was World Flyweight Champion from 1927 to 1929.-Boxing career:... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1998 |
| Barney Sedran Barney Sedran Barney Sedran was one of the great early pro basketball players in the 1910s and 1920s.-Career:Nicknamed "Mighty Mite", the New York City native who grew up on the Lower East Side, Sedran was a member of the well-known New York Whirlwinds and Cleveland Rosenblums, among many other teams in New... (deceased) |
United States |
Basketball | 1989 |
| Eugene Selznick Eugene Selznick Eugene Selznick is an American Hall of Fame former volleyball player, and volleyball coach.-Early life:... |
United States |
Volleyball | 2002 |
| Sergei Sharikov Sergei Charikov Sergey Aleksandrovich Sharikov , also known as Serguei/Sergei Charikov, is a left-handed Russian sabre fencer... |
Russia |
Fencing | 2003 |
| Yelena Shushunova Yelena Shushunova Yelena Lvovna Shushunova is a Russian gymnast, World, European, and Olympic Champion. Shushunova is renowned for her dynamic vaulting and tumbling skills as well as her longevity and exceptional consistency... |
Soviet Union |
Gymnastics | 2005 |
| Michael Sigel | United States |
Billiards | 2011 |
| Al Singer Al Singer Al Singer was an American boxer. He was born in the Lower East Side in New York City.... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 2006 |
| Anna Sipos Anna Sipos Anna Sipos was a Hungarian table tennis player. She won 21 medals in the World Table Tennis Championships.-Table Tennis Career:Sipos won 11 gold medals in World Championships... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Table Tennis | 1996 |
| Irina Slutskaya | Russia |
Figure Skating | 2009 |
| Harold Solomon Harold Solomon Harold Solomon was an American professional tennis player during the 1970s and 1980s. He achieved a career-high ranking of No. 5 in the world in 1980.- Tennis career :... |
United States |
Tennis | 2004 |
| Jack Solomons Jack Solomons Jack Solomons was a British boxing promoter who has been called "one of the greatest boxing promoters in history."He began promoting boxing in London during the 1930s. His first great success came when he put together a match between Jack London and Bruce Woodcock for the British heavyweight title... (deceased) |
United Kingdom |
Boxing | 2004 |
| Moe Spahn Moe Spahn -Early life, and college basketball career:Spahn, who was Jewish, was born in New York, New York. He attended Bryant High School, in Queens, New York, where he played basketball.... (deceased) |
United States |
Basketball | 1993 |
| Frank Spellman Frank Spellman Frank Isaac Spellman was an American weightlifter who set several Olympic records and earned a gold medal in 1948... |
United States |
Weightlifting | 1983 |
| Don Spero | United States |
Rowing | 1993 |
| Mark Spitz Mark Spitz Mark Andrew Spitz is a retired American swimmer. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, an achievement only surpassed by Michael Phelps who won eight golds at the 2008 Olympics.... |
United States |
Swimming | 1979 |
| David Stern David Stern David Joel Stern is the commissioner of the National Basketball Association. He started with the Association in 1966 as an outside counsel, joined the NBA in 1978 as General Counsel, and became the league's Executive Vice President in 1980. He became Commissioner in 1984 succeeding Larry O'Brien... |
United States |
Basketball | 1998 |
| Georges Stern (deceased) | Early Modern France |
Horse Racing | 1993 |
| Steve Stone Steve Stone (baseball player) Steven Michael Stone is an American former Major League Baseball player, and current sportscaster and author.... |
United States |
Baseball | 2004 |
| Joel Stransky Joel Stransky Joel Theodore Stransky is a former South African rugby union rugby player, most notable for scoring all of South Africa's points, including the famous dramatic winning drop goal, against New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final. He played as a fly-half.-Early life:Stransky was born in... |
South Africa |
Rugby | 2009 |
| Earl Strom Earl Strom Earl "Yogi" Strom was a professional basketball referee for 29 years in the National Basketball Association and for three years in the American Basketball Association . Strom is credited as the greatest referee in the history of the NBA and was known for his flamboyant style and ability to... (deceased) |
United States |
Basketball | 2008 |
| Kerri Strug | United States |
Gymnastics | 2000 |
| Miklós Szabados Miklos Szabados Miklós Szabados was a Hungarian and Australian table tennis champion.Szabados won 15 World Championship titles, including the World Singles crown in 1931.-Table tennis career:... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Table Tennis | 1987 |
| Éva Székely Éva Székely Éva Székely is a Hungarian retired female swimmer. She won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics.... |
Hungary |
Swimming | 1981 |
| Irena Szewińska Irena Szewinska Irena Szewińska is a retired Polish Jewish sprinter who was one of the world's foremost athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events.... (née Kirszenstein) |
 Poland |
Track & Field | 1981 |
| Sid Tannenbaum Sid Tannenbaum Sidney Tannenbaum was an American basketball player.-Biography:A 6' 0" guard/forward, Tannenbaum played college basketball at New York University, where he was a two-time All-American and two-time Haggerty Award winner. He also won the 1947 Bar Kochba Award, which honored him as the best Jewish... (deceased) |
United States |
Basketball | 1997 |
| Eliot Teltscher Eliot Teltscher Eliot Teltscher is a retired professional American tennis player.-Early years:Teltscher's mother was born in Israel; his father emigrated there during the Holocaust, and joined the British army... |
United States |
Tennis | 2009 |
| Lew Tendler Lew Tendler "Lefty" Lew Tendler was an American boxer. He is a member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame.-External links:******... (deceased) |
United States |
Boxing | 1992 |
| Leah Thall-Neuberger (deceased) | United States |
Table Tennis | 1999 |
| David "Pep" Tobey David Tobey David "Dave" Tobey was an American basketball referee. He refereed many notable pro games in New York between 1918 and 1925. In 1926 he refereed the Syracuse vs. West Point game, which featured two future Hall of Famers, Vic Hanson and John Roosma... (deceased) |
United States |
Basketball | 1995 |
| Allen Tolmich Allen Tolmich Allen Tolmich is a former track and field athlete.Tolmich was born in Detroit, Michigan, and is Jewish. He attended Wayne State University, joined its track team as a walk-on in 1934, and was captain of it in 1936 to 1937... |
United States |
Track & Field | 2002 |
| Shaun Tomson Shaun Tomson Shaun Tomson is a South African professional surfer and former world champion, environmentalist, actor, author and businessman.-Life and career:... |
South Africa |
Surfing | 1995 |
| Dara Torres Dara Torres Dara Grace Torres is an American international swimmer and a twelve-time Olympic medalist. Torres was the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympic Games , and, at age 41, the oldest swimmer ever to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team... |
United States |
Swimming | 2005 |
| Eduard Vinokurov Eduard Vinokurov Eduard Teodorovich Vinokurov was a Soviet Russian sabre fencer. He was born in the village of Baizhansai, South Kazakhstan Province, Kazakh SSR.-Fencing career:Vinokurov began fencing in 1956.He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Leningrad.... |
 Kazakhstan |
Fencing | 2007 |
| Richárd Weisz Richárd Weisz Richárd Weisz was a Hungarian sport wrestler who competed in the 1906 Summer Olympics and in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He was born and died in Budapest.... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Wrestling | 1983 |
| Matt Wells Matt Wells (boxer) Matthew "Matt" Wells was a professional boxer in the welterweight division.- Amateur career :During his amateur career, he won four consecutive ABA Lightweight titles .- Olympics :... (deceased) |
United Kingdom |
Boxing | 2007 |
| Sylvia Wene Sylvia Wene Sylvia Wene , also known as Sylvia Wene Martin, is an American former bowler.Wene is Jewish, and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.... |
United States |
Bowling | 1979 |
| Lajos Werkner Lajos Werkner Lajos Werkner was a Hungarian sabre fencer.- Olympic career :He won gold medals in Team Sabre at the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games.... (deceased) |
Hungary |
Fencing | 1999 |
| Henry Wittenberg Henry Wittenberg Henry Wittenberg was a prodigious American wrestler and Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling. He won two Olympic medals and was the first American wrestler after 1908 to achieve this feat. He at one point in his career wrestled 300 matches without losing... (deceased) |
United States |
Wrestling | 1979 |
| Chagai Zamir | Israel |
Volleyball | 1998 |
| Max Zaslofsky Max Zaslofsky Max "Slats" Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach.-Biography:Zaslofsky attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, and St. John's University. He was Jewish.... (deceased) |
United States |
Basketball | 1983 |
Pillar of Achievement
| Name | Country | Field | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jesse Abramson† | United States |
Media | 1995 |
| Maury Allen Maury Allen Maury Allen was an American sportswriter, actor, and former columnist for the New York Post and the Journal-News. He was also a voter for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Allen wrote 40 books on American sports icons... |
United States |
Media | 2009 |
| Jehoshua Alouf | Israel |
Official/Administrator | 1981 |
| Robert Atlasz | Israel |
Official/Administrator | 1986 |
| Baruch Bagg | Israel |
Official/Administrator | 1981 |
| Moe Berg Moe Berg Morris "Moe" Berg was an American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II... |
United States |
Baseball/Patriot | 1983 |
| Gretel Bergmann Gretel Bergmann Gretel Bergmann, also known as Margaret Bergmann-Lambert is a German-born athlete who competed as a high jumper during the 1930s.-Biography:Bergmann was born in Laupheim, Germany, where she later began her career in athletics... |
Germany |
Track & Field | 1980 |
| Ira Berkow Ira Berkow Ira Berkow is an American Pulitzer Prize winning sports reporter, columnist and writer.-Life:Berkow earned his BA in English Literature at Miami University, and his MA from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University... |
United States |
Media | 2006 |
| Dr. Richard Blum | Germany |
Official/Administrator | 1983 |
| Alfréd Brüll | Hungary |
Official/Administrator | 1995 |
| John Brunswick | United States |
Bowling | 1996 |
| Daniel Bukantz Daniel Bukantz Daniel B. Bukantz was an American Olympic fencing competitor and referee and also a dentist.He won the national singles championship in the foil in 1949, 1952, 1953 and 1957. He competed in the foil in Olympic games four consecutive times beginning in 1948, and was part of nine national... |
United States |
Official/Administrator | 2001 |
| Si Burick Si Burick Simon "Si" Burick was a sports editor and featured columnist for the Dayton Daily News for 58 years. Burick received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award on July 23, 1983, and was inducted into the writers section of the Baseball Hall of Fame... † |
United States |
Media | 2000 |
| Haskell Cohen Haskell Cohen Haskell Cohen was the public relations director of the National Basketball Association from 1950 to 1969. He is known as the creator of the NBA All-Star Game. He was inducted to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame for his contributions in basketball.-Career:In 1951, Cohen joined the NBA... |
United States |
Official/Media | 1991 |
| Dan Daniel Dan Daniel Dan Daniel may refer to:* Dan Daniel , American sportswriter* Dan Daniel , U.S. Representative from Virginia* Dan Daniel , "Dandy Dan", American radio disc jockey... † |
United States |
Media | 1996 |
| Massimo Della Pergola | Italy |
Official/Media | 1989 |
| Judith Deutsch | Austria |
Swimming | 1981 |
| Lajos Dömény-Deutsch† | Hungary |
Official/Administrator | 1995 |
| Leo Donáth | Hungary |
Swimming | 1999 |
| Leone Efrati | Italy |
Boxing | 2000 |
| Al Munro Elias† | United States |
Media | 2003 |
| Red Fisher Red Fisher (journalist) Red Fisher is a Canadian sports journalist whose columns focus on the National Hockey League and its Montreal Canadiens team.... |
Canada |
Media | 1999 |
| György Szepesi György Szepesi György Szepesi is a Hungarian radio personality, journalist and sports executive.-Early life:... (born Friedländer) |
Hungary |
Media | 1998 |
| Ian Froman Ian Froman Ian Froman is a South African-born Israeli former tennis player and tennis patron.He is known for playing in the Wimbledon Championships in the 1950s, representing Israel in Davis Cup competition in the 1960s and 1970s, and playing a primary role in the founding of the Israel Tennis Centers in the... |
South Africa |
Tennis | 1991 |
| Harry L. Getz | South Africa |
Official/Administrator | 1985 |
| Emmanuel Gill | Israel |
Official/Administrator | 1983 |
| Harry Glickman Harry Glickman Harry Glickman is a retired journalist, promoter, and sports executive. He was one of the founders of the Portland Trail Blazers, and was the team's president from 1987 to 1994.-Early career:... |
United States |
Official/Administrator | 1995 |
| Marty Glickman Marty Glickman Martin "Marty" Glickman was a Jewish American track and field athlete and sports announcer, born in The Bronx, New York. His parents, Harry and Molly Glickmann, immigrated to the United States from Jassy, Romania.... |
United States |
Media | 1996 |
| Chaim Glovinsky | Israel |
Official/Administrator | 1982 |
| Julius Goldman Julius Goldman Julius "Goldie" Goldman was a Canadian basketball player.... |
Canada |
Basketball | 1999 |
| Kenneth Gradon | United Kingdom |
Official/Administrator | 2002 |
| Al Greenberg | United States |
Media | 1993 |
| Bud Greenspan | United States |
Media | 1995 |
| Pierre Guildesgame | United Kingdom |
Official/Administrator | 1985 |
| Lester Harrison Lester Harrison Lester "Les" Harrison was an American professional basketball player, coach, and team owner and is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.... |
United States |
Basketball | 1991 |
| Sidney Halter | Canada |
Football | 2005 |
| Gladys Heldman Gladys Heldman Gladys Medalie Heldman was the founder of World Tennis magazine; she supported Billie Jean King and other female tennis players who formed the Virginia Slims Tour in the early 1970s... |
United States |
Tennis/Media | 1989 |
| Harry Henshel | United States |
Official/Administrator | 1983 |
| Jerome Holtzman Jerome Holtzman Jerome Holtzman was an American sportswriter known for his writings on baseball who served as the official historian for Major League Baseball from 1999 until his death.-Newspaper career:... † |
United States |
Media | 2005 |
| Joseph Inbar | Israel |
Official/Administrator | 1989 |
| Mike Jacobs Mike Jacobs (boxing) Michael Strauss Jacobs was a boxing promoter, arguably the most powerful in the sport from the mid-1930's until his effective retirement in 1946... |
United States |
Boxing | 1993 |
| Hank Kaplan Hank Kaplan Hank Kaplan was an American boxing historian and writer. Always wearing one of many of his prized boxing baseball caps, and smoking a pipe, he is widely regarded as the nation's foremost boxing historian, and was known and respected worldwide... |
United States |
Media | 2004 |
| Henry Kaplan | United States |
Boxing | 2004 |
| Ferenc Kemény | Hungary |
Official/Administrator | 1996 |
| Leonard Koppett Leonard Koppett Leonard Koppett was one of the most influential sportswriters of the 20th century.Born in Moscow, Koppett moved with his family from Russia to the United States when he was five years old... |
United States |
Media | 2011 |
| Kurt Lamm Kurt Lamm Kurt Lamm was a German-born American soccer player, coach, manager, and administrator.-Early and family life:Lamm was Jewish, and was born in Salmünster, Germany. He came to the United States as a youth, in 1936... |
United States |
Soccer | 1993 |
| Harold Landesberg | United States |
Official/Administrator | 1983 |
| Fred Lebow Fred Lebow Fred Lebow , who was born Fischel Lebowitz, was an avid runner and founder of the New York City Marathon. Born in Arad, Romania, he presided over the transformation of the race from one with 55 finishers in 1970 to one of the largest marathons in the world with over 43,660 finishers in 2009... |
United States |
Official/Administrator | 1994 |
| Dr. Herman Leweller | United States |
Official/Administrator | 1987 |
| A.J. Liebling† | United States |
Media | 1998 |
| Bill Lippy | United States |
Official/Administrator | 1997 |
| Willy Meisl Willy Meisl Willy Meisl was an Austrian-jewish sports journalist in the 20th century; the brother of the Austrian national football manager, Hugo Meisl.... † |
Germany United Kingdom |
Media | 1986 |
| Marvin Miller Marvin Miller Marvin Julian Miller is a former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association , from 1966 to 1982. Under Miller's direction, the players' union was transformed into one of the strongest unions in the United States... |
United States |
Official/Administrator | 2001 |
| Barney Nagler† | United States |
Media | 1992 |
| Ben Olan | United States |
Media | 1994 |
| Murray Olderman Murray Olderman Murray Olderman is an artist who specialized in cartoons related to sports. He received the National Cartoonist Society Sports Cartoon Award for 1974 and 1978. His artwork often accompanied the sports stories he authored. His art also has been used by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and hung above... |
United States |
Media | 1997 |
| Charles Ornstein† | United States |
Official/Administrator | 1984 |
| Orna Ostfeld Orna Ostfeld Orna Ostfeld is an Israeli former basketball player and current basketball coach.-Early life and non-basketball activities :Ostfeld is Jewish, and was born in Jerusalem, Israel.... |
Israel |
Basketball | 2009 |
| Bernard Postal† | United States |
Media | 1986 |
| Shirley Povich Shirley Povich Shirley Lewis Povich was an American sports columnist and reporter for the Washington Post.-Biography:Povich's parents were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania... |
United States |
Media | 1992 |
| Julia Jones Pugliese Julia Jones Pugliese Julia Jones Pugliese was an American fencer.Born Julia Jones, she married Anthony Pugliese. She started her fencing career at NYU and became the first women's US National Intercollegiate champion in 1929.... † |
United States |
Fencing | 2002 |
| Jimmie Reese Jimmie Reese Jimmie Reese was a Major League Baseball second baseman, third baseman, and coach.In order to avoid the brunt of prejudice against Jewish... † |
United States |
Baseball | 1995 |
| Joe Reichler† | United States |
Media | 2008 |
| Harold U. Ribalow† | United States |
Media | 2009 |
| Ed Sabol Ed Sabol Edward "Ed" Sabol is an American filmmaker and the founder of NFL Films. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011 as a contributor due to his works with NFL Films.... |
United States |
Media | 1996 |
| Al Schacht Al Schacht Alexander "Al" Schacht was an American professional baseball player, coach, and, later, restaurateur. Schacht was a pitcher in the major leagues from 1919–21 for the Washington Senators.-Baseball career:... † |
United States |
Baseball | 2008 |
| Dick Schaap Dick Schaap Richard Jay Schaap was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author.-Early life and education:... † |
United States |
Media | 2003 |
| Eric Seelig Eric Seelig Eric Seelig was middleweight/light-heavyweight boxing champion in Germany in 1933. Because he was Jewish, he was stripped of his titles, and, in July 1933, he was threatened by the Nazis if he dared fight another match. He fled to France... † |
Germany |
Boxing | 1992 |
| Joseph Shane | United States |
Official/Administrator | 2002 |
| Jesse Silver | United States |
Media | 1989 |
| Roy Silver | United States |
Media | 1989 |
| Harry Simmons Harry Simmons Harry Simmons was a baseball executive, writer, and historian. His early interest in baseball derived from the Sunday afternoon games heattended with his father... † |
Canada |
Official/Administrator | 2007 |
| Emmanuel Simon† | Israel |
Official/Administrator | 1983 |
| Dr. Uri Simri | Israel |
Official/Administrator | 1991 |
| Margaredt Sonnenfeld | Israel |
Official/Coach | 1997 |
| Oscar State† | United Kingdom |
Official/Weightlifting | 1989 |
| Louis Stein† | United States |
Official/Bowling | 1992 |
| Bill Stern Bill Stern Bill Stern was a U.S. actor and sportscaster who announced the nation's first remote sports broadcast and the first telecast of a Major League Baseball game. In 1984, Stern was part of the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame’s inaugural class which included sportscasting legends Red... † |
United States |
Media | 2001 |
| Sam Stoller Sam Stoller Sam Stoller was an American sprinter and long jumper who tied the world record in the 60-yard dash in 1936. He is best known for his exclusion from the American 4 × 100 relay team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, triggering widespread speculation that he and Marty Glickman,... † |
United States |
Track & Field | 2007 |
| Arthur Takać |  Kingdom of Yugoslavia(  Independent State of Croatia) |
Official/Administrator | 1989 |
| Sam Taub Sam Taub Sam Taub was a journalist and radio broadcaster who is best known for his work covering boxing.Taub was Jewish, and was born on New York's Lower East Side and raised on Mott Street in Chinatown. Taub's first job in journalism was as an assistant to Bat Masterson at the New York Morning Telegraph... (deceased) |
United States |
Media | 1993 |
| Irving Ungerman | Canada |
Boxing | 1994 |
| Ben Weider Ben Weider Benjamin "Ben" Weider, was the co-founder of the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness along with brother Joe Weider... |
Canada |
Body Building | 1992 |
| Joe Weider Joe Weider Josef E. "Joe" Weider is co-founder of the International Federation of BodyBuilders along with brother Ben Weider and creator of the Mr. Olympia, the Ms. Olympia, and the now-defunct Masters Olympia bodybuilding contests... |
Canada |
Body Building | 1992 |
| Chaim Wein† | Israel |
Official/Administrator | 1986 |
| Joseph Yekuteli† | Israel |
Official/Administrator | 1982 |
| Aviezer Yellin† | Israel |
Official/Administrator | 1984 |
| Paul Ziffren† | United States |
Official/Administrator | 1993 |
| Harold O. Zimman† | United States |
Official/Media | 1991 |
- NB: † denotes a posthumous induction
Lifetime Achievement
| Year | Name | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Sam Sharrow | Miami Beach, Florida Miami Beach, Florida Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter which separates the Beach from Miami city proper... , USA |
| 1993 | David Pincus | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,... , USA |
| 1994 | Karl Ribstein | Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
| 1995 | Monty Hall Monty Hall Monte Halperin, OC, OM , better known by the stage name Monty Hall, is a Canadian-born MC, producer, actor, singer and sportscaster, best known as host of the television game show Let's Make a Deal.-Early life:... |
Beverly Hills, California Beverly Hills, California Beverly Hills is an affluent city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. With a population of 34,109 at the 2010 census, up from 33,784 as of the 2000 census, it is home to numerous Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together... , USA |
| 1996 | Yariv Oren | Netanya Netanya Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the... , Israel |
| 1997 | Alan Sherman | Potomac, Maryland Potomac, Maryland Potomac is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, named for the nearby Potomac River. The population was 44,822 at the 2000 census. The Potomac area is known for its very affluent and highly-educated residents. In 2009 CNNMoney.com listed Potomac as the fourth... , USA |
| 1998 | Moshe Rashkes | Ramat Gan, Israel |
| 1999 | Fred Worms, OBE Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions... |
London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental... , UK |
| 2000 | Joseph Luttenberg | Afeka Afeka Afeka is a residential neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. It is located in the northwestern part of the city.-Notable residents:*Yaron London , media personality, journalist, actor, and songwriter... , Israel |
| 2001 | Robert Spivak | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 2002 | Uri Afek | Netanya Netanya Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the... , Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... |
| 2003 | Lester Fein | Vernon, New Jersey, USA |
| 2004 | Shimon Mizrahi | Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with... , Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... |
| 2005 | Sidney Greenberg | Toronto Toronto Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from... , Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
| 2006 | Alex Gilady | Israel |
| 2007 | Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer | Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, California Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California... , USA |
| 2008 | R. Stephen Rubin, OBE | London, England, UK |
| 2009 | Michael Kevezahi | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2010 | Moshe Teumim | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2011 | Robert Levy | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Chairman's Award of Excellence
| Year | Name | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Samuel P. Spron | New York City New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... , USA |
| Teddy Kaplan |
Israel |
See also
- List of Jews in sports
- Jewish Sports ReviewJewish Sports ReviewJewish Sports Review is a bi-monthly magazine that was established in 1997. Its editors are Ephraim Moxson and Shel Wallman.The magazine identifies which star and professional athletes are Jewish...
- National Jewish Museum Sports Hall of FameNational Jewish Museum Sports Hall of FameThe National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, in Commack, New York, is dedicated to honoring American Jewish sports figures who have distinguished themselves in sports....
(U.S.)
Books
- Jews and Baseball: The Post-Greenberg Years, 1949–2008, Burton Alan Boxerman, Benita W. Boxerman, McFarland, 2010, ISBN 0786428287
- The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players, Howard Megdal, Collins, 2009, ISBN 0061558435
- Jews and the Sporting Life, Vol. 23 of Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Ezra Mendelsohn, Oxford University Press US, 2009, ISBN 0195382919
- Day by Day in Jewish Sports History, Bob Wechsler, KTAV Publishing House, 2008, ISBN 1602800138
- The Big Book of Jewish Athletes: Two Centuries of Jews in Sports – a Visual History, Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz, S P I Books, 2007, ISBN 1561719277
- The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heros: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars, Peter S. Horvitz, SP Books, 2007, ISBN 1561719072
- Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, Jack Kugelmass, University of Illinois Press, 2007, ISBN 025207324X
- The New Big Book of Jewish Baseball: An Illustrated Encyclopedia & Anecdotal History, Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz, Perseus Distribution Services, 2007, ISBN 1561718211
- Jews and Baseball: Entering the American mainstream, 1871–1948, Burton Alan Boxerman, Benita W. Boxerman, McFarland, 2006, ISBN 0786428287
- Emancipation through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe, Michael Brenner, Gideon Reuveni, translated by Brenner, Reuveni, U of Nebraska Press, 2006, ISBN 0803213557
- Jewish Sports Stars: Athletic Heroes Past and Present, David J. Goldman, Edition 2, Kar-Ben Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1580131832
- Judaism's Encounter with American Sports, Jeffrey S. Gurock, Indiana University Press, 2005, ISBN 0253347009
- Jews and the Olympic Games; Sport: Springboard for Minorities, Paul Yogi Mayer, Vallentine Mitchell, 2004, ISBN 0853034516
- Great Jews in Sports, Robert Slater, Jonathan David Publishers, 2004, ISBN 0824604539
- Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash between Sport and Politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medallists, Paul Taylor, Sussex Academic Press, 2004, ISBN 1903900883
- The 100 Greatest Jews in Sports: Ranked According to Achievement, B. P. Robert Stephen Silverman, Scarecrow Press, 2003, ISBN 0810847752
- Foiled, Hitler's Jewish Olympian: the Helene Mayer Story, Milly Mogulof, RDR Books, 2002, ISBN 157143092X
- The Big Book of Jewish Baseball: An Illustrated Encyclopedia & Anecdotal History, Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz, SP Books, 2001, ISBN 1561719730
- Jewish Sports Legends: the International Jewish Hall of Fame, 3rd Ed, Joseph Siegman, Brassey's, 2000, ISBN 1574882848
- Sports and the American Jew, Steven A. Riess, Syracuse University Press, 1998, ISBN 0815627548
- When Boxing was a Jewish Sport, Allen Bodner, Praeger, 1997, ISBN 027595353X
- Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience, Peter Levine, Oxford University Press US, 1993, ISBN 0195085558
- The Jewish Child's Book of Sports Heroes, Robert Slater, Jonathan David Publishers, 1993, ISBN 0824603605
- The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Joseph M. Siegman, SP Books, 1992, ISBN 1561710288
- The Jewish Athletes Hall of Fame, B. P. Robert Stephen Silverman, Shapolsky Publishers, 1989, ISBN 094400704X
- The Jewish Boxers Hall of Fame, Ken Blady, SP Books, 1988, ISBN 0933503873
- The Great Jewish Chess Champions, Harold U. Ribalow, Meir Z. Ribalow, Hippocrene Books, 1987, ISBN 0870523058
- The Jewish Baseball Hall of Fame: a Who's Who of Baseball Stars, Erwin Lynn, Shapolsky Publishers, 1986, ISBN 0933503172
- From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary, Andrew Handler, East European Monographs, 1985, ISBN 0880330856
- The Jew in American Sports, Harold Uriel Ribalow, Meir Z. Ribalow, Edition 4, Hippocrene Books, 1985, ISBN 0882549952
- Jewish Baseball Stars, Harold Uriel Ribalow, Meir Z. Ribalow, Hippocrene Books, 1984, ISBN 0882548980
- The Jewish Athlete: A Nostalgic View, Leible Hershfield, s.n., 1980
- Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports, Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver, Bloch Pub. Co., 1965
External links
- IJSHoF official website
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame at ilMuseums.com
- "Int'l Jewish Sports Hall of Fame announces class of 2007," The Jerusalem Post, December 1, 2006
Other Jewish sports halls of fame
- Jewish Canadian Athletes Hall of Fame
- National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum (U.S.)
- Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California
- Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
- Orange County Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (California)
- Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
- Rochester Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (N.Y.)
- Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (Pennsylvania)