http://www.jewlicious.com/2008/10/first-basket-jews-and-basketball/ 100% Kosher Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:30:13 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.jewlicious.com/2008/10/first-basket-jews-and-basketball/comment-page-1/#comment-1448562 “General smartalecness” « The Plagiarists Blog Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:32:30 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=5895#comment-1448562 [...] “New York Daily News sports editor Paul Gallico wrote in the mid 1930s that basketball “appeals to the Hebrew with his Oriental background [because] the game places a premium on an alert, scheming mind and flashy trickiness, artful dodging and general smartalecness.” We see how qualities such as cunning and wiliness were posited as the keys to Jewish basketball success and how these kinds of statements were indicative of early 20th century America.” from Jewlicious [...] [...] “New York Daily News sports editor Paul Gallico wrote in the mid 1930s that basketball “appeals to the Hebrew with his Oriental background [because] the game places a premium on an alert, scheming mind and flashy trickiness, artful dodging and general smartalecness.” We see how qualities such as cunning and wiliness were posited as the keys to Jewish basketball success and how these kinds of statements were indicative of early 20th century America.” from Jewlicious [...]

]]> http://www.jewlicious.com/2008/10/first-basket-jews-and-basketball/comment-page-1/#comment-1437299 Scanning the Shabbatainment Blogs… « Will Samuels Entertains Himself Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:05:53 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=5895#comment-1437299 [...] sports, it’s the documentary you never realized you needed to see. Jewlicious tells us about The Greatest Jewish Basketball Documentary Ever. Amy Winehouse’s hit single Rehab sung in Yiddish. Oy. And finally, my friend Meredith at [...] [...] sports, it’s the documentary you never realized you needed to see. Jewlicious tells us about The Greatest Jewish Basketball Documentary Ever. Amy Winehouse’s hit single Rehab sung in Yiddish. Oy. And finally, my friend Meredith at [...]

]]> http://www.jewlicious.com/2008/10/first-basket-jews-and-basketball/comment-page-1/#comment-1108916 stanley schweiger Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:58:52 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=5895#comment-1108916 can't wait to see this documentary. i live in the Springfield, MA area, home of the basketball hall of fame. have they been approached regarding a "new england premiere?" there are loads of Jewish seniors in the Springfield/Hartford,CT market, and this film seems like a natural for this area. mazel tov! can’t wait to see this documentary. i live in the Springfield, MA area, home of the basketball hall of fame. have they been approached regarding a “new england premiere?” there are loads of Jewish seniors in the Springfield/Hartford,CT market, and this film seems like a natural for this area. mazel tov!

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