Philip Erenberg
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Representing the  United States
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1932 Los Angeles | Indian clubs |
Philip Richard Erenberg (March 16, 1909 – February 2, 1992) was an American gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
Personal life[]
Born in Ukraine, Erenberg was Jewish.[1][2][3][4] He arrived in the United States at the age of three.[5] He had one brother and one sister.[5] His father worked at the Florsheim Shoe Company.[5] His family lived in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.[5] In 1923 the family moved to Los Angeles, and he attended Roosevelt High School.[5]
He attended UCLA.[5] Erenberg received a medical degree from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine in 1934.[5] He practiced obstetrics and then internal medicine in Los Angeles.[5] He had a daughter and a son.[5]
Clubs[]
Erenberg was given a membership in and competed for the Los Angeles Athletic Club.[5]
He competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where Erenberg received a silver medal in gymnastics in clubs.[6][7][8]
In 2010 Erenberg was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[9]
See also[]
- List of select Jewish gymnasts
References[]
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume 15, 1996.
- ^ Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History, ISBN 9780881259698, KTAV Publishing House.
- ^ "Jewish Olympic Medalists". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
- ^ George Eisen. "Jewish Olympic Medalists". www.jewishsports.net.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "An Olympian's oral history Philip R. Erenberg, 1932 Olympic Games, gymnastics". la84.org. 1988.
- ^ "Ehrenberg, Philip R., M.D." The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, CA. February 3, 1992. p. 253. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "1932 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Gymnastics" Archived August 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on March 31, 2008)
- ^ "Historic Men's Gymnastics Clubs" – CNN; Sports Illustrated (Retrieved March 31, 2008)
- ^ "PHILLIP ERENBERG, MD; Gymnastics - 2011". Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
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