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In Jewish Newspapers: Judaism with cleats, battling ‘bacon bombs,’ market messianism

WHY DO JEWS LOVE BASEBALL?: Philadelphia’s Jewish Exponent asks around about the national pastime’s special appeal to our tribe. “Maybe Jews love baseball in part because it feels like Judaism,” journalist Jeff Zaslow tells the Exponent. “It is a mix of both rules and interpretations. The rulebook of baseball is set in stone, like the […]

By Daniel Treiman August 19, 2011 4:38 am

A 19th-Century Ukrainian Jewish Memoirist of the American Frontier

Imagine Little Women meets All-of-a-Kind Family, with a hint–just a hint–of Anna Karenina. Rachel Bella Kahn was a memoirist way before tell-all books and reality TV were fashionable. She grew up in the Ukraine, but was sent to New York at the age of 18 after getting into an “inappropriate romance.” The year was 1894. In America, Rachel was quickly […]

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