Creator Bio
Harold U. Ribalow
1919–1982
The son of a yeshiva-educated poetry critic, Harold Uriel Ribalow combined his two obsessions—Jews and sports—into one career as writer and editor. If Jews were playing, Ribalow was interested. He wrote about Jewish athletes with stereotype-smashing verve and enthusiasm. The Ukrainian-born Ribalow wrote about nonathletic Jews as well, his byline appearing in major newspapers and magazines and on the cover of anthologies. Still, it was to sports—an elastic category that included chess and bullfighting—that he always returned.
Content by Harold U. Ribalow
Primary Source
Mid-Century: An Anthology of Jewish Life and Culture in Our Times
In the tercentenary year of Jewish settlement in America, this volume is offered as evidence that the past decade—a mid-century point—has seen the publication of some of the most…