Instant Replay

Featuring Washington State Jews in Sports

Sports are about effort, team work, preparation and toughness. They teach us about life beyond the game. The Society will spend 2012 rolling out an exciting series of programs devoted to Washington Jews in Sports called Instant Replay: Featuring Washington Jews in Sports. When the WSJHS looks at the history of all Jewish sports people in our state, we will all benefit by learning through their stories of trials and tribulations, while competing, both on and off the bench in a multitude of sports. We plan to document a wide range of contributions Washington State Jews have made in sports, both here at home and around the world. We know about hundreds of athletes, varsity and professional, as well as team owners, managers, coaches, broadcasters and memorabilia collectors. These people have been involved in every sport imaginable and have both completed their athletic careers or are in the process of competing right now, making history today. These stories will then be shared as the WSJHS will create a website, a portal of information and a resource to all. After the website is created, many of these stories will be organized into exhibit storyboards for display and many of our state's sportspeople will be honored in a tribute book. All stories collected will be preserved for future research as they will be submitted to the Washington State Jewish Archives.

Submit your story or honor a sports figure to be a part of Washington State history. We are working to enable this form to be filled in on your browser; until then you can print it out and complete it and either mail it to the WSJHS at 2031Third Ave Seattle, WA 98121 or convert it to a PDF and attach it to an email sent to: assistant@wsjhs.org. You can also copy and paste the form into a Word document, complete it on line, and then send it as an attachment to the email address above.