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Mahjong’s Lynchburg boom is about more than the game
https://roanoke.com/news/state-regional/article_0ade46ef-9b1e-5766-9707-03a407f0f1dc.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest
Mahjong is taking the world by storm — or at least it is in Lynchburg.
The centuries-old tile game has found a growing audience in the Hill City, where local organizers say interest has continued to climb as more people discover the combination of strategy, competition and perhaps most importantly, community that comes with sitting around a mahjong table.
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Not clear how such an exhaustive article did not mention the Jewish history of the game.
My exposure to Mahjong started circa 1940s in the Catskills in which Jewish ladies, who were escaping NYC summer heat, before widespread air-conditioning, were playing Mahjong (Mah Jongg) as a prime pastime activity.
It was viewed locally as The Jewish Ladies Game.
Mahjong became a beloved cultural tradition for Jewish-American women after the game arrived in the U.S. in the 1920s.
Mah Jongg and the Jews
https://aish.com/mahjongg-and-the-jews/
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Mahjong Community features scenes from Driving Miss Daisy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6X4tml6RQs
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AI Overview Jewish women adopted, standardized, and popularized American mahjong by establishing the National Mah Jongg League in 1937 to fix official rules and print annual score cards. As Aish.com notes, the tile game became a cornerstone of American Jewish culture over the last century.
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