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A new book remembers Marty Glickman, the Jewish broadcasting icon famously benched at the Berlin Olympics

JL;DR SUMMARY Jeffrey Gurock's biography of Marty Glickman, a celebrated Jewish sports broadcaster once benched at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, highlights Glickman's significant influence in American sports broadcasting and his navigation of antisemitism. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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