MEMBER & GUEST MIXER
Sunday, August 27th at 5PM
Wine and Cheese Social and Film Viewing
The First Basket
Though basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith in Springfield, MA, the game spread like wildfire through turn-of-the-century New York settlement houses and proved a perfect fit for urban Jewish kids. By the 1920s, basketball had become a staple of life in American Jewish communities, and many of the top teams grew out of these neighborhoods. THE FIRST BASKET is the first comprehensive documentary to examine both the role that Jewish players had in the evolution of the game and the impact that basketball played in the assimilation of American Jews.
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