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Today on Tablet
November 10, 2011
In the 1930s, the Jews dominated basketball, and it wasn’t always pretty. Neal Pollack’s new novel, Jewball, depicts that era and, writes Bethlehem Shoals today in Tablet Magazine, takes some provocative liberties with the history to emphasize the down-and-dirty nature of, well, Jewball.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.