ABSTRACT
Introduction Jews have fared well in the United States, producing about one-third of American Nobel Prize winners and laureates and amassing a median household net worth 4.5 times the national average. One area where they purportedly did not succeed was in sports. This chapter argues that Jewish participation in sports, connected mainly to socioeconomic factors, surpassed their 2 percent of the national population. The population of Jews in the United States ranged from 1.97 in 1900 to 2.2 percent today.1
