SubscribeRequired reading: A Terrible Splendor
It sounds like a grade B melodrama, but The New York Times reviewed A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played, by Marshall Jon Fisher, in its Sunday book section this weekend.
This is the tale of Don Budge, Baron GottÂfried von Cramm, and Big Bill [...]
Lest we forget: Boxer who survived Auschwitz by fighting dies
From the JTA:
JERUSALEM — Salamo Arouch, a Greek-Jewish boxer who survived Auschwitz by fighting fellow prisoners, has died.
Arouch died in a nursing home in Israel on April 26. He was 86.
Arouch served as a consultant on the 1989 film “Triumph of the Spirit” about his win-or-die fights staged by the Nazis. It was the first [...]
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