The grants for 2022-2023 went to Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, for Marty Glickman: The Quests of an American Jewish Sports Legend (NYU Press, forthcoming) and Dr. Ran Shao, associate professor of economics, for a study of how individual investors adjust equity investments.
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This book in progress will do just that. Rooted within an understanding of the sweep of that century’s American Jewish narrative, it takes his experiences to “the next level,” to borrow a sports phrase that Glickman might have used.
A new deep dive into so much of what has been written about him, said about him among his friends and family as well as the multiple times he reminisced about himself, not to mention a more than half century of media coverage of his trials and triumphs, this book speaks to a Jewish life of challenge, frustration and achievements. It places in high relief the quests for professional success and social acceptance first as an athlete and then as a sports personality—above and beyond what was done to him during the Berlin games—amid prejudice and cultural barriers that were common to thousands, if not millions, of fellow Jews of his generation as they strove to advance in America.
This study reemphasizes the truth that the scholarly historical exploration of the sports experience has always been more than who won or lost but more crucially whether a striving participant is allowed to play the games.
Publication is slated for July 2023.![](/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2017/06/Shao_Ran_300.jpg)