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Harry Blitman, a smooth lightweight, was one of many outstanding Jewish boxers in the 1920s and 1930s

Ring Magazine’s editor/publisher Nate Fleisher called Tendler the “greatest southpaw in ring history”

Called the greatest southpaw boxer who ever lived, Lew Tendler was also known as the “boxing newsboy”

This 1932 fight was promoted by Herman Taylor

Tendler in the center, flanked (on left) by Runyon a famous writer, and (on right) by Hoover the Director of the FBI

A boxing match in 1926 between contenders for the Featherweight Championship

Mike Rossman’s father was Italian and his mother was Jewish, and as a boxer he took her maiden name and had a Star of David tattooed on his right calf