Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements April 11, 2010
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments;and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ______________________________________________________________ Date: March 19, 2010 [email protected] Subject: "kulakn helden" I am writing a book about the professional Jewish boxers of Philadelphia, 1893 to 1939, and perhaps a few years beyond WWII. There were about 50 to 75 professional Jewish boxers from Philadelphia. Some of the more well known boxers were Benny Bass, Batling Levinsky and Joseph Brown (who was later a lecturer and professor of sculpture at Princeton University). Two of the most well known were Harry Lewis and Lew Tendler: 1. Henry Besterman, who fought under the name Harry Lewis, on June 27, 1910, was matched against Aschel Young Joseph, the British welterweight champion and holder of the Lonsdale belt. Both fighters were Jewish. The match took place at Wonderland, Whitechapel Road, Stepney, London. It was owned by Mr. Breyer. Harry Lewis was managed by Al Lippe. The fight, according to the British English-language press, was for the World Welterweight Championship. If anyone has information on these men from the Yiddish press, or access to Yiddish newspaper articles about the fight or Wonderland when it was used for boxing, would you please contact me. Wonderland was used for Yiddish theatre. I have the English language articles about these men from the Jewish Chronicle of London. 2. Benny Leonard fought Lew Tendler of Philadelphia at Yankee Stadium before 58,000 fans on July 24, 1923, for the World Lightweight boxing title. Both fighters were Jewish; the ~Sforwards~T did cover the fight. Would anyone have any additional information on the fight in Yiddish, from Yiddish magazines or newspapers. Thank you, Harry D. Boonin ______________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: [email protected] (in the subject line write Mendele Personal) Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e. inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: [email protected] IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation, grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: [email protected] Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
