Harold U. Ribalow

Harold U. Ribalow (July 1, 1919 – October 22, 1982) was an American writer, editor, and anthologist.

Background and family Harold Uriel Ribalow was born in 1918 in Russia and immigrated to the United States as a small child. He was contributor to The New York Times Book Review, Commentary, Saturday Review, and The Nation. Ribalow wrote an introduction to the new edition, which was published by Pageant Books in 1960.

Ribalow was the editor of several collections of Jewish short stories, The Chosen, This Land, These People, These Your Children, and My Name Aloud.

Books The Jew in American Sports (1948) In 1983, the New York Jewish Week described The Jew in American Sports as. "the quintessential bar mitzvah gift of the 1950s and 1960s. The World's Greatest Boxing Stories Daniel Mendoza, Fighter from Whitechapel (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, Inc., 1962) Autobiographies of American Jews The Great Jewish Books (1952, edited with Samuel Caplan) Fighting Heroes of Israel The History of Israel's Postage Stamps What's Your Jewish I.Q.? The Tie That Binds, Ribalow's final book, was a series of interviews with American Jewish writers.