List of Jewish American athletes

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This is a list of famous Jewish American athletes. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

Contents

[edit] Baseball

Unless otherwise noted, all baseball players sourced from the Chicago Jewish News Online[1]

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Boxing

[edit] Football

[edit] Golf

[edit] Hockey

[edit] Miscellaneous Sports

[edit] Motor sports

[edit] Power sports

[edit] Skating

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[edit] Soccer

[edit] Swimming

[edit] Tennis and racquet sports

[edit] Track and Field

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Blomberg - [2] "Ron Blomberg... Big, hulking Jewish kid from Atlanta."
  3. ^ [3] "He is the highest drafted Jewish baseballer since Justin Wayne went also went 5th in 2000."
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  8. ^ [9] "Last week, Jewish OFs Adam Greenberg..."
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  10. ^ [11] "Add Ian Kinsler to the names of Jewish major leaguers."
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  15. ^ [16] "Olympic experience thrills Canadian Jewish ballplayer..."
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  17. ^ [18] "two Jewish back-ups have had a chance to play: third baseman Kevin Youkilis and right fielder Gabe Kapler." [19]
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  20. ^ [22] "Jewish shooting star aims to make his mark in NBA... Bluthenthal’s late mother was Jewish and his father is black — the family name Bluthenthal originated with a slave owner David Bluthenthal believes was German-Jewish."
  21. ^ [23] "Brown is the fifth Jewish Head Coach to win an NBA title..."
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  23. ^ [25] "Bruin fans call him the Jewish Jordan...He's a real, live Jewish kid from the heart of Los Angeles, whose step-father is Israeli and has visited Israel twice" [26]
  24. ^ [27] "“Even though I’m Jewish,” he says, “I joined a CYO team and became the ­player-coach. It’s the only thing I have in common with Bill ­Russell.”"
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  26. ^ [29] "first 6 winners, including Dutch Garfinkel, were Jewish..."
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  30. ^ [33] "Holman was always very conscious of being Jewish..."
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  46. ^ [60] "...who could better serve as a contrast to the Irish Catholic family man from New Jersey than a tough, mouthy Jewish kid with a million-dollar strut named Max Baer?" [61]
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  52. ^ [68] "Kearns went on, "You know I tell people that Jack is one-eighth Jewish. You'd all love to meet his great grandmother, Rachel Solomon. She can't be here. He's got a little Irish blood and some Scottish blood and some Indian blood, but here's the truth. Jack Dempsey is not just one-eighth Jewish. He's easily forty-five, fifty percent Jewish. Jack Dempsey is mostly Jewish.""
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  57. ^ [73] "The “First Lady of Boxing” is often asked what a nice Jewish girl like her is doing in a sport like that."
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  76. ^ [102] "Jewish skier comes back to his true love - football..."
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  95. ^ [http://www.jewishaz.com/issues/story.mv?050923+nfl
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  99. ^ Wilf - [133] "The team’s owner, Zygi Wilf, an Orthodox Jew..."
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  110. ^ [148] "Nystrom is the highest Jewish draft pick in NHL draft history"
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  116. ^ [155] "The man who made his name as a Jewish pro wrestler talks about his recent religious awakening"
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  125. ^ [167] "Newman self-identifies as Jewish, "because it's more of a challenge", per Earl Blackwell (1991)."
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  135. ^ [178] "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for... Ice skater Sasha Cohen" [179] [180]
  136. ^ Galler-Rabinowitz - [181]
  137. ^ [182] "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for in Turin... Melissa Gregory" [183] "Gregory is the daughter of a Jewish mother and a non-practicing Catholic father. She now lives in Connecticut to train and Gregory recently spoke to the Connecticut Jewish Ledger about her religious background: "We [my brother and I] were brought up with the feeling that you have to believe in G-d. You have to believe in right and wrong. The rest they kind of left up to us. We celebrated everything-Christmas, Hanukkah, all the Jewish holidays, Easter. They taught us both traditions. Then when we got older they said whatever we chose and whatever we wanted was good with them. I identify that my heritage is Jewish. I feel proud of it.""
  138. ^ [184] "Emily Hughes—whose sister Sarah won the 2002 Olympic gold medal in women's figureskating—also is Jewish."
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  141. ^ [188] "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for in Turin! Ice dancer Jamie Silverstein"
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    [edit] Skiing

    • Jeremy Bloom - Olympic skier/model<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498897866&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull] "Jewish skier comes back to his true love - football..."</li>

    <li id="_note-142">'''[[#_ref-142|^]]''' [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=8649]</li> <li id="_note-143">'''[[#_ref-143|^]]''' '''Bornstein''' - named as on "Jewish Sports Review Men's All-America First-Team" at [http://calbears.cstv.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/020906aaa.html]; [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16619] ""It was amazing. It was great. I loved it. It made me realize how fulfilling and enriched Jewish culture really is," Bornstein said. "So in the past couple years, I've felt more Jewish than ever." His father is Jewish and his mother is a non-Jew from Mexico. Bornstein grew up celebrating Passover and Rosh Hashanah with relatives. He did not have a bar mitzvah, and he doesn't consider himself observant. The Maccabiah experience was a way for him to connect with Judaism."</li> <li id="_note-144">'''[[#_ref-144|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.com/news/winter0001.htm]</li> <li id="_note-145">'''[[#_ref-145|^]]''' '''Feilhaber''' - [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16619] "Outside of my UCLA teammate Benny Feilhaber, I never really thought there were other high-class Jewish soccer players out there"</li> <li id="_note-146">'''[[#_ref-146|^]]''' [http://www.ajhs.org/reference/jews_sport.cfm]</li> <li id="_note-147">'''[[#_ref-147|^]]''' [http://www.jewsinsports.org/photographs.asp?sport=soccer&ID=16]</li> <li id="_note-148">'''[[#_ref-148|^]]''' [http://www.womensoccer.com/refs/wsports/wis-whalen_14feb03.html]</li> <li id="_note-149">'''[[#_ref-149|^]]''' [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=7985]</li> <li id="_note-150">'''[[#_ref-150|^]]''' [http://jewishsportshalloffame.com/Hebrew/JSHF/Tiffany_Cohen.html]</li> <li id="_note-151">'''[[#_ref-151|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.com/jewsin/olympics.htm]</li> <li id="_note-152">'''[[#_ref-152|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.com/profiles/krayzelburg.htm]</li> <li id="_note-153">'''[[#_ref-153|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm] [http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/040813/olympics.shtml]</li> <li id="_note-154">'''[[#_ref-154|^]]''' [http://jewishsportshalloffame.com/Hebrew/JSHF/HallYear.htm]</li> <li id="_note-155">'''[[#_ref-155|^]]''' '''Spitz''' - [http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/MarkSpitz.htm] "Spitz became the first Jewish recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award..."</li> <li id="_note-156">'''[[#_ref-156|^]]''' [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1574889516/103-3377999-7335053?v=glance&n=283155]</li> <li id="_note-157">'''[[#_ref-157|^]]''' [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1:97212885/Brad+Gilbert+talks+with+Post+about+Israel,+tennis,+Andy,+and+Andre.html?refid=SEO]</li> <li id="_note-158">'''[[#_ref-158|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/9020/edition_id/171/format/html/displaystory.html] ""He knows he's Jewish and the values are there with him," said Clark Goldstein, Paul's father."</li> <li id="_note-159">'''[[#_ref-159|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/biopages/BrianGottfried.htm]</li> <li id="_note-160">'''[[#_ref-160|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/MartyHogan.htm] [http://jewishsportshalloffame.com/Hebrew/JSHF/HallYear.htm]</li> <li id="_note-161">'''[[#_ref-161|^]]''' [http://www.cjnews.com/pastissues/01/july12-01/sports/sports2.htm]</li> <li id="_note-162">'''[[#_ref-162|^]]''' [http://www.squashtalk.com/profiles/niederhoffer.htm]</li> <li id="_note-163">'''[[#_ref-163|^]]''' [http://www.tennisserver.com/netgame/netgame_10_2_96.html] "Are you Jewish? A Greek Jew."</li> <li id="_note-164">'''[[#_ref-164|^]]''' [http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=tennis&ID=43]</li> <li id="_note-165">'''[[#_ref-165|^]]''' [http://jewishsportshalloffame.com/Hebrew/JSHF/HallYear.htm]</li> <li id="_note-166">'''[[#_ref-166|^]]''' http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm</li> <li id="_note-167">'''[[#_ref-167|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm]</li> <li id="_note-168">'''[[#_ref-168|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm</li> <li id="_note-169">'''[[#_ref-169|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm]</li> <li id="_note-170">'''[[#_ref-170|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm]</li> <li id="_note-171">'''[[#_ref-171|^]]''' [http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/zcd068a.htm]</li> <li id="_note-172">'''[[#_ref-172|^]]''' [http://jewishsportshalloffame.com/Hebrew/JSHF/Maccabi_Union.htm]</li> <li id="_note-173">'''[[#_ref-173|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm]</li> <li id="_note-174">'''[[#_ref-174|^]]''' [http://www.thejc.com/Home.aspx?ParentId=m16s102&AId=43370&ATypeId=1&secid=02&prev=true]</li> <li id="_note-175">'''[[#_ref-175|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AbelKiviat.htm]</li> <li id="_note-176">'''[[#_ref-176|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm]</li> <li id="_note-177">'''[[#_ref-177|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/biopages/LonMyers.htm] [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=599166&contrassID=15]</li> <li id="_note-178">'''[[#_ref-178|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/biopages/MyerPrinstein.htm] [http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/prinsteinmyer.shtml]</li>

    <li id="_note-179">'''[[#_ref-179|^]]''' [http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm]</li></ol></ref>
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