BOOKS
Abramson, Martin. No Man Stands Alone: The True Story of Barney Ross. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1957.
Anderson, Dave. In the Corner: Great Boxing Trainers Talk about Their Art. New York: William Morrow, 1991.
Andrews, Thomas S. World’s Sporting Annual Record Book 1915. Milwaukee, WI: T. S. Andrews, 1915.
Aycock, Colleen, and Mark Scott. Tex Rickard: Boxing’s Greatest Promoter. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.
Berkowitz, Michael, and Ruti Ungar (eds.). Fighting Back: Jewish and Black Boxers in Britain. London: UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies in Association with The Jewish Museum, London, 2004.
Blady, Ken. The Jewish Boxers’ Hall of Fame. New York: Shapolsky, 1988.
Bodner, Allen. When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.
Body, Kasia. Boxing: A Cultural History. London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2008.
Brady, Jim. Boxing Confidential: Power, Corruption, and the Biggest Prize in Sport. Lytham Lancashire, UK: Milo Books Ltd., 2002.
Brenner, Michael, and Gideon Reuveni (eds.). Emancipation through Muscles: Jews and Sport in Europe. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
Bromberg, Lester. Boxing’s Unforgettable Fights. New York: The Ronald Press Co., 1962.
____. World’s Champs. USA: Retail Distributors, Inc., 1958.
Callis, Tracy, and Chuck Johnston. Boxing in the Los Angeles Area: 1880–2005. USA: Trafford Publishing, 2009.
Callis, Tracy, Chuck Hasson, and Mike DeLisa. Philadelphia’s Boxing Heritage: 1876–1976. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2002.
Cavanaugh, Jack. Tunney: Boxing’s Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey. New York: Random House, 2006.
Century, Douglas. Barney Ross. New York: Nextbooks/Schocken, 2006.
Considine, Bob, and Bill Slocum. Dempsey by the Man Himself. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Dewey, Donald. Ray Arcel: A Boxing Biography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.
Farrell, Bill. Cradle of Champions: 80 Years of New York Daily News Golden Gloves. Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 2006.
Fleischer, Nat. Fifty Years at Ringside. New York: Fleet Publishing, 1958.
____(ed.). The Ring Record Book and Boxing Encyclopedia, 1960. New York: The Ring Publishing Corp., 1960.
____. Leonard the Magnificent. New York: The Ring Bookshop, 1947.
Foer, Franklin, and Mark Tracy (eds.). Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame. New York and Boston: 12, 2012.
Fried, Ronald K. Corner Men: Great Boxing Trainers. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991.
Gee, Tony. Up to Scratch: Bareknuckle Fighting and the Champions of the Prize-ring. Herts, England: Queen Anne Press, 1998.
Gems, Gerald R. Boxing: A Concise History of the Sweet Science. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Goldman, Herbert G. Boxing: A Worldwide Record of Bouts and Boxers, Vol. 4. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.
Goldstein, Ruby, and Frank Graham. Third Man in the Ring. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1959.
Gorn, Elliot. The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Grombach, John V. The Saga of the Fist: The 9,000-Year Story of Boxing. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1977.
Grover, Warren. Nazis in Newark. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003.
Gurock, Jeffrey S. Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City 1920–2010. New York and London: New York University Press, 2012.
Haft, Alan Scott. Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2006.
Harding, John, with Jack “Kid” Berg. Jack Kid Berg: The Whitechapel Windmill. London: Robson Books, 1987.
Heller, Peter. In This Corner . . . ! Forty World Champions Tell Their Stories. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973.
Hertzberg, Arthur. The Jews in America: Four Centuries of An Uneasy Encounter: A History. New York and London: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
Hugman, Barry J. (ed.). The British Boxing Board of Control Yearbook 1996. Essex, England: Robson Books, 1996.
Isenberg, Michael T. John L. Sullivan and His America. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Jarrett, John. Champ in the Corner: The Ray Arcel Story. Gloucestershire: Stadia, 2007.
Johnston, J. J., and Sean Curtin. Chicago Boxing. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005.
Johnston, J. J., and Don Cogswell. Uncrowned Champions. Blurb Publications, 2011.
Katz, Yossi. A Voice Called: Stories of Jewish Heroism. Jerusalem and New York: Gefen Publishing, 2010.
La Force, Christopher J. The Choynski Chronicles: A Biography of Hall of Fame Boxer Jewish Joe Choynski. Iowa City: WIN BY KO Publishing, 2013.
Landesman, Alter F. Brownsville: The Birth, Development, and Passing of a Jewish Community in New York. New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1969.
Lange, Arne K. Prizefighting: An American History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.
Levine, Peter. Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Lewis, Morton. Ted Kid Lewis: His Life and Times. London: Robson Books Ltd., 1992.
Luftspring, Sammy. Call Me Sammy. Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice Hall of Canada, Ltd., 1975.
Margolick, David. Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
McCallum, John D. Encyclopedia of World Boxing Champions. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Co., 1975.
Mendelsohn, Ezra (ed.). Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Vol. XXIII. USA: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Newfield, Jack. Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King. New York: William Morrow, 1995.
Odd, Gilbert. The Woman in the Corner: Her Influence on Boxing. London: Pelham Books, 1978.
Pollack, Adam J. In the Ring with James J. Corbett. Iowa City: WIN BY KO Publishing, 2007.
Riess, Steven A. City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
____(ed.). Sports and the American Jew. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Ripley, Robert (ed.). Everlast Boxing Record 1925. New York: Everlast Sport Publishing Co., 1925.
Rivers, Christopher (ed., translator). Jack Johnson: My Life and Battles (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2009.
Roberts, James B., and Alexander G. Skutt. The Boxing Register: International Boxing Hall of Fame Official Record Book, 4th Edition. Ithaca, New York: McBooks Press, Inc., 2006.
Roberts, Randy. Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1979.
____. Joe Louis: Hard Times Man. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010.
Robinson, Sugar Ray, with Dave Anderson. Sugar Ray. New York: Viking Press, 1969.
Romano, Frederick V. The Boxing Filmography: American Features, 1920–2003. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.
Ross, Ron. Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003.
Roth, Philip. The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.
Sachar, Howard M. A History of the Jews in America. New York: Vintage, 1993.
Sammons, Jeffrey T. Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990.
Scharf, Thomas. Baltimore’s Boxing Legacy 1893–2003. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005.
Schechter, Ronald. Mendoza the Jew: Boxing, Manliness, and Nationalism, A Graphic History. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Schulberg, Budd. Ringside: A Treasury of Boxing Reportage. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006.
Schutte, William. The Fighting Dentist: The Boxing Career of Dr. Leach Cross. Fullerton, CA: Self-published, 1977.
Seigman, Joseph. The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Jewish Sports Legends (Fourth Edition). Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2005.
Silver, Mike. The Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.
Smith, Kevin R. The Sundowners: The History of the Black Prizefighter 1870–1930. USA: CCK Publishing, 2006.
_____. Boston’s Boxing Heritage: Prizefighting From 1882–1955. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2002.
Somrack, Daniel F. Boxing in San Francisco. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005.
Sugar, Bert Randolph. Boxing’s Greatest Fighters. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2006.
Toledo, Springs. The Gods of War: Boxing Essays. Tora Book Publishing, 2014.
Vitale, Rolando. The Real Rocky: A History of the Golden Age of Italian Americans in Boxing 1900–1955. London: RV Publishing, 2014.
Wallechinsky, David, and Jaime Loucky. The Complete Book of the Olympics: The 2012 Edition. London: Aurum Press, 2012.
Weston, Stanley (ed.). The Best of The Ring: The Bible of Boxing. Chicago: Bonus Books Inc., 1992.
Weston, Stanley, and Steven Farhood. The Ring: Boxing in the Twentieth Century. New York: BDD Illustrated Books, 1993.
Winn, George (ed.). Boxing News Record Illustrated, 1938 Edition. New York: The Boxing News, Inc., 1938.
____. Boxing News Record Illustrated, 1939 Edition. New York: The Boxing News Inc., 1939.
Zucker, Harvey Marc, and Lawrence J. Babich. Sports Films: A Complete Reference. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1987.
Anderson, Dave. “Izzy’s Posters,” New York Times, September 26, 1976.
Baker, Kevin. “The Case for the Draft,” American Heritage, Vol. 54, Issue 3, June/July 2003.
Cleavelin, Harry. “Augie Ratner: Champ without a Crown!,” Boxing Illustrated, February 1967.
Cogswell, Don. “Boxing’s Good Book,” Journal of the International Boxing Research Organization (Issue 91), September 27, 2006.
Daley, Arthur. “Is Boxing on the Ropes?,” New York Times, Sunday Magazine section, January 31, 1954.
Dawson, James P. “Beau Jack Halts Reif in 4th Round,” New York Times, Sports Section, January 6, 1946.
“Feldman Conquers Lewis in 10 Rounds,” New York Times, July 25, 1935.
“Forgotten Men of Boxing,” Boxing & Wrestling, November 1957.
Kahn, Dara. “Yiddish, The Mamloshen Lives,” B’nai B’rith Magazine, Spring 2013.
“Kaplan Is Victor at the Queensboro,” New York Times, July 18, 1928.
Katz, Michael B., and Mark J. Stern. Poverty in Twentieth-Century America, Working Paper No. 7, November 2007.
Margolick, David. “Max Schmeling, German Boxer, Is Dead at 99,” New York Times, February 4, 2005.
Moss, Marv. “Maxie Berger: Fighter and Referee,” Montreal Gazette, February 23, 1972.
Newfield, Jack. “The Shame of Boxing,” The Nation, November 12, 2001.
Nichols, Joseph C. “Battering Attack Enables Braddock to Triumph over Lasky at Garden Bout,” New York Times, March 23, 1935.
Rose, Murray. “Farewell to Stillman’s,” Boxing Illustrated, February 1962.
Ross, Ron. “Morris Reif Passes Away,” International Boxing Research Journal, Issue 120, December 2013.
Tomasson, Robert E. “Maxie Rosenbloom Dead; Boxer and Actor was 71,” New York Times, March 8, 1976.
Tunis, John R. “Sad State of the Boxing Business, New York Times, Sunday Magazine section, November 6, 1949.
Boxing in America (documentary), ESPN, 2004.
The Gentleman Prizefighter (documentary) Fastnet Films, 2013.
Boxing scrapbooks (author’s collection)
Chicago History Museum
Hank Kaplan Boxing Archive at Brooklyn College Library
Library of Congress
Los Angeles Public Library
Museum of the City of New York
Newark Public Library
New York Public Library
The Ring magazine, various issues, 1922–1961
University of Texas at Austin’s H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sport
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research