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Emancipation through muscles: Jews and sports in Europe / edited by Michael Brenner and Gideon Reuveni. University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Pictorial history of American sports : Colonial times to the present / by John Durant and Otto Bettmann. A.S. Barnes, 1952.
ha-Sporṭ ha-Yehudi be-Germanyah ha-Natsit bi-reʼi ha-ʻitonut ha-Yehudit ha-Germanit = Jewish sports in Nazi Germany as reflected in the German-Jewish press / by Daniyel Frenḳel. Yad ṿa-shem, 2016.
Judaism's encounter with American sports / by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Indiana University Press, 2005.
Marty Glickman : the life of an American Jewish sports legend / by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Washington Mews Books, 2023.
Jews, sports, and the rites of citizenship / edited by Jack Kugelmass. University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Ellis Island to Ebbets Field : sport and the American Jewish experience / Peter Levine. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Juden im Sport während des Nationalsozialismus : ein historisches Handbuch für Niedersachsen und Bremen / by Lorenz Peiffer and Henry Wahlig. Wallstein Verlag, 2012.
Jüdischer Sport und Sport der Juden in Deutschland : eine kommentierte Bibliografie / by Lorenz Pfeiffer and Henry Wahlig. Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2009.
The Jew in American sports / by Harold U. Ribalow. Bloch Pub. Co., 1966.
Sports and the American Jew / edited by Steven A. Riess. Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Sport im Abseits : die Geschichte der jüdischen Sportbewegung im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland / by Henry Wahlig. Wallstein Verlag, 2015.
One hundred years of "Muscular Judaism" : sport in Jewish history and culture / Edited by David K. Wiggins, et. al. Special issue of: Journal of Sport History, vol. 26, no. 2, Summer 1999. North American Society for Sport History, 1999.
Out of left field : Jews and Black baseball / by Rebecca T. Alpert. Oxford University Press, 2011.
The American game : baseball and ethnicity / edited by Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson. Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
Jews and baseball / by Burton A. Boxerman and Benita W. Boxerman. McFarland & Co., 2007.
Matzoh balls and baseballs : conversations with Jewish former major league baseball players / by Dave Cohen. Havenhurst Books, 2010.
The big book of Jewish baseball / by Peter S. Horvitz & Joachim Horvitz. S.P.I. Books, 2001.
Chasing dreams : Baseball and becoming American / edited by Josh Perelman. National Museum of American Jewish History, 2014.
American Jews and America's game : Voices of a growing legacy in baseball / by Larry Ruttman. University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
Hammerin' Hank Greenberg : Baseball pioneer / by Shelley Sommer. Calkins Creek, 2011.
Dolph Schayes and the rise of professional basketball / by Dolph Grundman. Syracuse University Press, 2014.
Nancy Lieberman, basketball's magic lady / by Betty Millsaps Jones. Harvey House Publishers, 1980.
Basketball my way / by Nancy Lieberman with Myrna & Harvey Frommer. Scribner, 1982.
"A sport at which Jews excel" : Jewish basketball in American society, 1900-1951 / by Arieh Sclar. Thesis (Ph.D.), State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2008.
The SPHAS : The life and times of basketball's greatest Jewish team / by Douglas Stark. Temple University Press, 2011.
When boxing was a Jewish sport / by Allen Bodner. Praeger, 1997.
Barney Ross / by Douglas Century. Nextbook : Schocken, 2006.
Corner men : The great boxing trainers / by Ronald K. Fried. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991.
Harry Haft : Auschwitz survivor, challenger of Rocky Marciano / by Alan Scott Haft. Syracuse University Press, 2006.
The life story of Abe the newsboy : hero of a thousand fights / by Abe Hollandersky. Abe the Newsboy Pub. Co., 1930.
The memoirs of the life of Daniel Mendoza / edited by Paul Magriel. Batsford, 1951.
Stars in the ring : Jewish champions in the golden age of boxing : A photographic history / by Mike Silver. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Foiled, Hitler's Jewish olympian : The Helene Mayer story / by Milly Mogulof. RDR Books, 2002.
"De Stern ufem Herz, in Züri dihei" : hundert Jahre Vielfalt, Offenheit und Toleranz / edited by FC Hakoah Zü̈rich. Chronos, 2023.
Ajax, the Dutch, the war: Soccer in Europe during the Second World War / by Simon Kuper. Nation Books, 2012.
Hakenkreuz und rundes Leder : Fussball im Nationalsozialismus / by Lorenz Peiffer & Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling. Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2008.
Julius "Juller" Hirsch, 1892 Achern-1943 Auschwitz : deutscher Fussballnationalspieler / by Swantje Schollmeyer. Hentrich & Hentrich, 2007.
Davidstern und Lederball : die Geschichte der Juden im deutschen und internationalen Fussball / edited by Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling. Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2003.
Heulen mit den Wölfen : der 1. FC Nürnberg und der Ausschluss seiner jüdischen Mitglieder / by Bernd Siegler. Starfruit, 2022.
American Jewish women on the court : Seeking an identity in tennis in the early decades of the twentieth century / by Linda J. Borish. Purdue University Press for the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, 2014.
The match : Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton : How two outsiders - one Black, the other Jewish - forged a friendship and made sports history / by Bruce Schoenfeld. Amistad, 2004.
Vergessene Rekorde : jüdische Leichtathletinnen vor und nach 1933 / edited by Berno Bahro, et al. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2009.
By leaps and bounds / by Margret Bergmann Lambert. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005.
Hitlers Angst vor dem jüdischen Gold : der Fall Bergmann, die verhinderte Olympiasiegerin / by Christian Frietsch. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2013.
Abel Kiviat, national champion : Twentieth-century track & field and the melting pot / by Alan S. Katchen. Syracuse University Press, 2009.
King of the road : From Bergen-Belsen to the Olympic games : The autobiography of an Israeli scientist and a world-record-holding race walker / by Shaul P. Ladany ; translated from the Hebrew by Sara Kitai. Gefen Publishing, 2008.
Meditations from the breakdown lane : Running across America / James E. Shapiro. Random House, 1982.
The Nazi Olympics : Berlin 1936 / / by Susan D. Bachrach. Little, Brown, and Co., 2000.
The boys in the boat : Nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics / by Daniel James Brown. Viking, 2013.
Hitler's games : The 1936 Olympics / by Duff Hart-Davis. Harper & Row, 1986.
The Nazi Olympics / by Richard D. Mandell. University of Illinois Press, 1987.