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Ellis Island to Ebbets Field

Ellis Island to Ebbets Field

Peter Levine

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Editorial:
Oxford University Press
Año de edición:
1993
Materia
Historia de América
ISBN:
9780195085556
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Filled with marvelous stories, anecdotes and personality profiles, this book explores the importance of sport--both watching and playing--as a middle ground for a minority culture actively determining for itself what it meant to be an American Jew. Photos.

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