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The Last Stand of Barney Ross: A Legend Refuses To Surrender

Summary by The Fight City
Barney Ross was more than just one of the best boxers who ever lived. A Jew whose life was largely defined by anti-Semitism, he was a hero to his people, no less than Benny Leonard before him. Barney’s father, Isidore Rasofsky, was a Talmudic scholar who fled a pogrom in Eastern Europe to travel to America, opening a small vegetable shop in Chicago’s Jewish ghetto. His son’s roughneck ways on the streets of the Windy City naturally concerned the…
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The Fight City broke the news in on Saturday, May 31, 2025.
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