Jewball, Neal Pollack
Jewball, Neal Pollack
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Jewball

Author: Neal Pollack

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 11/20/2012

Synopsis

1937. The gears of world war have begun to grind, but Inky Lautman, star point guard for the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association, America's greatest basketball team, is dealing with his own problems.His coach has unwittingly incurred a massive gambling debt to the Bund, a group of American Nazis. His main basketball rival is self-righteously leading public protests against homegrown American fascism. And his girlfriend wants him to join a Jewish student organization that's all talk and no action. It's more than Inky can deliver. He just wants to play ball and occasionally beat people up for money.When the Bund comes calling for what it’s owed, Inky has to make a stand for his ragtag bunch of teammates and the coach that got them into this mess. With the Bund closing in, Inky's game isn’t just basketball anymore. It becomes a battle that pits Jewish pride against Nazi fascism.The tides of history are flowing against a guy like Inky. Can he make his free throws and still make it through the season alive? Get ready. This…is Jewball.

About Neal Pollack

Neal Pollack is the author of the cult classic The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, the novel Never Mind the Pollacks, and the memoirs Alternadad and Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Slate, Salon, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Maxim. He lives with his wife and son in Austin, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott B Millen on June 06, 2017

Funny, Interesting, and Educational Despite the weird title, this is a great story told well and lovingly. The characters are (literally) real, and the story is engrossing and amusing. It reads easily and is full of atmospheric language and settings that reminded me of not only the American History I......more

Goodreads review by Neil on April 25, 2018

Read it If you like basketball read it if you're Jewish read it if you like humor read it if you like history read it if you like a gritty tail read it absolutely inventive fantastic book loved it......more

Goodreads review by Lori Thompson on November 25, 2016

Quick read, actually learned quite a bit. While reading I felt as I was sitting on the sideline during each game. I don't know much about American Jewish history, but this book surprised and saddened me.......more

Goodreads review by Richard on September 26, 2013

Truly, Madly, Bouncy Neal Pollack's Jewball is - amazingly - based on real characters and events. But the story might appeal to anyone with a love of chicken soup and basketball. It seems that American Jews had a lot more to do with popularising basketball than I ever imagined, and they had 'skin in t......more

Goodreads review by Mainon on June 02, 2012

I bought this on impulse at the same time I picked up Calico Joe, and maybe because of that association, I thought this book was about baseball, even though I read the description. Oops. I'm not as interested in basketball, but the subject matter of this book was still interesting: a Jewish basketba......more

Quotes

“With his new novel, the author of Alternadad and Stretch steps boldly into the world of direct digital publishing.” —Propeller Magazine“An intriguing experiment…Pollack has chutzpah.” —The Jewish Daily Foward

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