Gerald Eskenazi
By Gerald Eskenazi
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Culture Fighting for Survival
The Fighter By Jean-Jacques Greif Bloomsbury USA, 288 pages, $16.95. Every book about the Holocaust seems to open up a new world of horrors. The problem, though, is that we are, in many ways, beyond surprises. You mean they’d shoot a Jew because he is too weak to work? Yes, I’ve heard that. They pulled…
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Culture Boxing Writing That Pulls No Punches
Ringside: A Treasury of Boxing Reportage By Budd Schulberg Ivan R. Dee, 368 pages, $27.50. Back in the early 1990s, The New York Times asked if I might be interested in leaving my football beat to become the boxing writer. The decision was easy — boxing had always been the most lyrical beat in the…
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Opinion Field of Dreams, Now Just Another Field
Forty years ago, Sandy Koufax took a day off from his job because it was Yom Kippur. And because it fell on a day he was supposed to pitch in the World Series, he was elevated once and forever into icon status in the Jewish community. But I believe that the gesture is now more…
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