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Books
Jewish Boxing
Jewish Boxing (Fiction)
Jews in Sports
Boxing in General
Jewish Boxing
Stars and Scars: The Story of Jewish Boxing in London
By Jeff Jones
Amberley Publishing, 2023
The JBB review of Stars and Scars
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The True Story of Leen Sanders
By Erik Brouwer
Cassell, 2023
The JBB review of The Fighter of Auschwitz
The Whitechapel Whirlwind
By John Harding
Pitch Publishing, 2019
Ted Kid Lewis
By Morton Lewis
Robson Book, 1992
The Fighter
By Arnold Zable
Text Publishing, 2016.
Holocaust Fighters: Boxers, Resisters, Avengers
By Jeffrey Sussman
Rowman & Littlefield, 2021
The JBB Review of Holocaust Fighters
The Great Benny Leonard: Mam's Boy to World Champ
By John Jarrett
Pitch Publishing, 2021
The JBB Review of The Great Benny Leonard
The Minuteman: The Forgotten Legacy of Nat Arno and the Fight against Newark's Nazis
By Greg Donahue
Audible Originals, 2020
The JBB Review of The Minuteman
Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-fated Prizefighter
By Ron Ross
Bedell Books, 2003, 2014
Barney Ross: The Life of a Jewish Fighter
By Douglas Century
Schocken, 2009
The Boxer's Story: Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Camps
By Nathan Shapow with Bob Harris
The Robson Press, 2013
Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano
By Alan Haft
Syracuse University Press, 2006, 2020
Dandy: A Jewish Boxer's Journey from Russian Immigrant to Boxing Champion
By Daniel P. Joseph
2011
Augie's Secrets: the Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip
By Neal Karlen
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2013
The JBB review of Augie's Secrets
Al Bernstein: 30 Years, 30 Undeniable Truths about Boxing, Sports, and TV
By Al Bernstein
Diversion Books, 2012
The Jewish Boxers Hall of Fame
By Ken Blady
S.P.I. Books, 1988
Excelsior Editions, 2011
Fighter from Whitechapel: The Story of Daniel Mendoza
By Harold U. Ribalow
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1962, 2011
Jewish Boxing (Fiction)
The King of Warsaw: A Novel
By Szczepan Twardoch
Amazon Crossing, 2016, 2020
The JBB of King of Warsaw
Newark Minutemen: A True 1930's Legend about One Man's Mission to Save a Nation's Soul without Losing His Own
By Leslie K. Barry
Morgan James Publishing, 2020
The JBB review of Newark Minutemen
A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel
By David Liss
Ballantine Books, 2001
By David Liss
By David Liss
Jews in Sports
Twelve, 2012
When Basketball was Jewish
By Douglas Stark
University of Nebraska, 2017
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
By Jane Leavy
Harper Perennial, 2002, 2010
You've Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! [This book is for kids]
By Jonah Winter
Dragonfly Books, 2009, 2016
Jewish Major Leaguers in Their Own Words: Oral Histories of 23 Players
By Peter Ephross with Martin Abramowitz
McFarland & Company, Inc., 2012
The Jewish Baseball Hall of Fame: A Who's Who of Baseball Stars
Shapolsky Publishers, Inc. 1987
[Note: This is primarily a book of trivia questions]
Boxing in General
By Mark Kriegel
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis [This book is for kids]
By Matt de la Peña
Puffin Books, 2013
By W.K. Stratton
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
University of Arkansas Press, 2013
By Thomas Hauser
University of Arkansas Press, 2009
Da Capo Press, 1993
By George Kimball
McBooks Press, 2009
The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion
By William Gildea
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013
By Jeremy Schaap
Mariner Books, 2006
"In This Corner...!": Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories
By Peter Heller
Da Capo Press, 1973, 1994.
Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter
By James S. Hirsch
Houghton Muffin, 2000.
By Carlos Acevedo
Hamilcar Publications, 2020
The JBB review of Sporting Blood
Slaughter in the Streets: When Boston Became Boxing's Murder Capital
By Don Stradley
Hamilcar Publications, 2020
The JBB review of Slaughter in the Streets
Thirty Dollars and a Cut Eye
By J. Russell Peltz
Peltz Boxing Inc., 2021
The JBB review of Thirty Dollars and a Cut Eye
The President of Pandemonium: The Mad World of Ike Ibeabuchi
By Luke G. Williams
Hamilcar Publications, 2021
The JBB review of President of Pandemonium
Bundini:
By Todd D. Snyder
Hamilcar Publications, 2020
The JBB review of Bundini
Championship Rounds
RKMA Publishing, 2020
The JBB review of Championship Rounds
Boxing in Atlantic City
By John DiSanto and Matthew H. Ward
Arcadia, 2021
The JBB Review of Boxing in Atlantic City
By Malissa Smith
The Night the Referee Hit Back
By Mike Silver
Rowman & Littlefield, 2020
The Jewish Boxing Blog Review of The Night the Referee Hit Back
Tony Canzoneri
By Mark Allen Baker
McFarland, 2023
The JBB Review of Tony Canzoneri
Matthew Saad Muhammad
By William Dettloff
McFarland, 2023
The JBB review of Matthew Sad Muhammad