“It is good to have Douglas Century’s brief but informative biography…Not merely was Ross one of the prominent American Jews of his day, but he was the most prominent Jewish boxer in the 1920s and ’30s.”
A powerful storyteller brings to life one of the most colorful boxers of the 20th century. Paperback release party August 8.
Inspired by the hunger for books on Jewish subjects written in a lively, intelligent, and popular manner, Nextbook Press's Jewish Encounters Series brings together writers of the first rank with people and ideas and events from the Jewish past. The series, under the general editorship of Jonathan Rosen, is a collaboration between Nextbook Inc., devoted to the promotion of Jewish literature, culture, and ideas, and Schocken, with its storied backlist of Jewish classics. It is a sister organization to Tablet magazine.
