The Deflympic Games and the Jews

Do you know that there are 114 medal-winning Jewish athletes from 16 different countries who excelled at the Deaflympic Games in 18 various sports from 1928 and to now and who won a combined total of 266 medals, including 107 gold, 81 silver and 78 bronze, at both Summer and Winter Games? Do you know that an American athlete - a Jew - was the first athlete in the U.S. Deaf sports history to win a complete set of medals - a gold, a silver and a bronze - at one and same Games in 1957? Or...
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Do you know that there are 114 medal-winning Jewish athletes from 16 different countries who excelled at the Deaflympic Games in 18 various sports from 1928 and to now and who won a combined total of 266 medals, including 107 gold, 81 silver and 78 bronze, at both Summer and Winter Games? Do you know that an American athlete - a Jew - was the first athlete in the U.S. Deaf sports history to win a complete set of medals - a gold, a silver and a bronze - at one and same Games in 1957? Or do you know that a Jewish girl from Hungary was, at her age of 14, the youngest ever gold medal winner in table tennis in the history of the Deaflympic Games?Well, the reader will find answers to the foregoing questions in this book. In the book pages the reader will learn the backgrounds of 114 Games medal-winning Jewish athletes and see their accompanying photos. The book pages also contain significant and interesting information about the backgrounds of twenty Deaf sports personalities of Jewish origin from different countries of the world who contributed a great deal to the progress and well being of the Deaf sports world, in general, and the Deaflympic movement, in particular. Their photos are also presented in the book pages. The publication of this first ever and uniquely-themed book shall allow the readers to have clearer ideas about the fate of the Deaf and Jewish athletes, coaches and leaders, about their sporting exploits that have taken place in their lives, especially at a major and premier sporting event for the Deaf people - the Deaflympic Games.The book has 12 different topics and over 500 photos on its pages.