Sports Illustrated recently released a list of historys greatest Jewish athletes, and now a group of top thinkers and policymakers is doing the same.

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and New Yorker editor David Remnick will be among the big-name contributors to Jewish Jocks, an essay collection about Jews in sports.

Open gallery view NBA basketball players. Credit: AFP

Summers, whos spent the past 20 years bouncing between the presidency of Harvard and the White House, will write about Harold Solomon, whose name didnt immediately ring a bell for the Shmooze. (Turns out he was a pro tennis player who ranked among the top 10 in the world in the late 70s and early 80s.) Friday Night Lights writer Buzz Bissinger will devote his section to boxer Barney Ross (a world champ whose given name was Beryl David Rosofsky).

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