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Step onto the stoops of 1950s Flatbush and watch a brilliant, wise-cracking kid grow into one of America's most fearless sports columnists. In Brooklyn Jew, award-winning writer Lowell Cohn (author of Rough Magic and Gloves Off, and a 2022 inductee into the Northern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame) invites you into 40+ fast-moving, laugh-out-loud, and sometimes heart-stopping stories that trace his journey from pickle barrels and stickball to Stanford lecture halls and Super Bowls. Cohn writes the way Flatbush kids talk-funny, direct, and unafraid of truth. Every chapter crackles with street-corner wit, bittersweet family lore, and the resilience of a people who turned a Brooklyn ""shtetl"" into the launchpad for an American life. Whether you're a memoir lover, a sports fan, or simply chasing an unforgettable voice, Brooklyn Jew serves up nostalgia, insight, and hard-earned hope in equal measure. Open these pages and meet the roaring lion inside every underdog.

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Lowell Cohn was born in 1945. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, attended Midwood High School, Ocean Avenue Synagogue Hebrew School, Lafayette College, B.A. English Literature 1966, Stanford University, M.A. English Literature 1968, and Ph.D. English Literature 1972. He was the sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and Santa Rosa Press Democrat 1979 to 2016.Lowell is now retired, living in Oakland, California. He was married to Dawn Elaine Rounseville from 1985 to 2022.

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