Philip Richard Erenberg (March 16, 1909 – February 2, 1992) was an American gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
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Born in the Russian Empire, 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]
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]
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