Philip Erenberg
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Philip "Phil" Richard Erenberg (March 16, 1909 – February 2, 1992) was an American gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
Personal life
Born in Ukraine, Erenberg was Jewish. He arrived in the United States at the age of three. He had one brother and one sister. His father worked at the Florsheim Shoe Company. His family lived in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. In 1923 the family moved to Los Angeles, and he attended Roosevelt High School.
He attended UCLA. Erenberg received a medical degree from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine in 1934. He practiced obstetrics and then internal medicine in Los Angeles. He had a daughter and a son.
Clubs
Erenberg was given a membership in and competed for the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
He competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where Erenberg received a silver medal in gymnastics in clubs.
In 2010 Erenberg was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
See also
- 1909 births
- 1992 deaths
- American male artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in gymnastics
- Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
- Jewish Ukrainian sportspeople
- Ukrainian emigrants to the United States
- Jews and Judaism in Chicago
- Sportspeople from Chicago
- Sportspeople from Los Angeles
- UCLA Bruins men's gymnasts
- University of California, Irvine alumni
- American obstetricians
- American internists
- American artistic gymnast stubs
- American Olympic medalist stubs