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Joseph Greenstein, better known as The Mighty Atom, was a strongman from Poland born in 1893. He weighed only 4 pounds at birth, born prematurely with additional health issues which made doctors believe he won’t live longer than a couple of hours. Against all odds, Greenstein survived this ordeal, only to to contract tuberculosis at the age of 14. Once again, doctors believed that young boy won’t be able to fight off the infection. He proved them wrong, again.

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Joe Greenstein was born into a poor family, so he couldn’t afford to pay a fee for circus performances which were very popular back then. That’s when he decided to try and sneak in to the Iskoff Brothers’ Circus, featuring popular Russian strongman Champion Volanko. Unfortunately, Greenstein was caught and beat until Champion Volanco himself saw what was going on, and practically saved him from further beating. Volanco felt sorry for the little guy and offered to teach him how to become stronger through proper diet and exercising. Coming from a personal hero, Greenstein immediately accepted the offer. For the next 18 months, two of them traveled together with the circus and Joe improved his body and strength in such a way that his family could barely recognize him when he came back home.

One of Joe’s popular feats was driving a 20 penny nail through 2 and half thick wooden board

During next couple of years Joseph became heavily involved in wrestling, performing under the name Kid Greenstein . This was around 1914, when antisemitism was on the rise across Europe. For this and other reasons, Joe left Europe and went to the USA to live with his wife Leah, whom he married a year before. Working as an oil field and dock worker, Joseph also found spare time to continue with wrestle performances. That same year a jealous guy who fell in love with Joe’s wife shot him between eyes from a distance of around 30 feet. According to various sources, the bullet actually flattened on the impact without penetration, leaving Greenstein with only a superficial wound. Joseph was enlightened by this experience, waking up his mental powers and allowing him to perform incredible feats , as he said. This is where his strongman career actually began.

Joseph Greenstein showing his incredible teeth and jaw strength by biting chains in half

The Mighty Atom derived from the fact that he stood only 5’4″, weighing 140 pounds but still had an incredible amount of strength. Some of reported feats Greenstein was capable of are impressive, and some are downright scary. For instance, The Mighty Atom could hold the airplane from taking off with a rope tied to his hair. Another scary feat include supporting a weight of fourteen men while lying on a bed filled with nails. Greenstein could change a tire using his bare hands, bite through a 25 cent coin, break three chains tied to his chest and bend a steel bar with his powerful hair. One of his most popular feats was driving a 20 penny nail through a thick wooden board, but scrolling steel rods into various shapes was also praised by his audience.

He continued his strongman career even as an eighty year old man. His last public performance took place at Madison Square Garden in 1977, driving nails and bending spikes for the first birthday of his great grandchild. The Mighty Atom appeared in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and even made it into Guinness Book of World Records in 1976. He never became rich, though. In his later years, Greenstein and his wife sold health elixirs and various oil soaps at fairs. Even though he never truly made the real bucks, perhaps he lived that kind of lifestyle by choice. People say that he was very happy and content spiritually even at an old age, which is something all of us should aim for. The Mighty Atom died at the age of 84 from cancer.

There is a great book on The Mighty Atom, entitled “ The Spiritual Journey of Joseph L. Greenstein ” which is out of print, but not impossible to find on Amazon and similar websites.

Mr. Greenstein’s contributions to the mental aspect of strongman training were incredible, and if I’m correct he also had a good relationship with the Great Gama, a legend in his own right.

I had the pleasure of meeting him at gilbersville sale in boyertown. He was a strong guy

Saw him every year at the Allentown Fair. Always an impressive demonstration of feats of strength and an inspiration to anyone wanting to improve their health and life. The world needs more men like this. I bet if he were alive today and released on the rioters in various cities of the U.S., he could clean house fast.

I could be wrong, but there’s a story where the Atom was in NYC. Nazis were erecting a marquee advertising their program. The Atom returned with a club or bat and beat up 20 Nazis, sending several to hospital.

He was charged with I suppose battery. with the Nazis in sad shape. The judge couldn’t believe it, looking at the beat ups and small Atom. In clothes he would look average size.

There’s an excellent article in Quora by Usama Khan which mentions Joe:

How was Bruce Lee so powerful with so little muscles. No doubt Lee, with his extensive reading knew the Atom. It would be interesting if they ever shook hands. Also, Lee had friends from all ethnic groups and would understand what made the atom tick.

I remember seeing him at The Englishtown Auction in NJ on Saturdays as a kid. I would stand for hours and watch his show including feats of strengths. I would stand for hours as my mother and grandmother would shop. I was always fascinated by him. That was probably back in the late 40 or early 50s.

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The mighty atom the life and times of joesph l. greenstein.

I wish to thank the following people for their kind cooperation assistance: The Greenstein family, Cathy Bardram, Rancial I . Bassett, Victor Boff, Mrs. William L. Champion, George Dillnmii. Mollie Cohen Greenstein, John Grimek, Naraki Hara, Lew Horn. Jesse Kahn, Esq., Charles Kornhaber, R. E. Liebmann, Mario. Gel Socorro S. Martinez, Theron K. Rinehart, Irving Shapiro, AK Shenkman, Al Spielman, Sam Spielman, and Andrew Yelaney. Special thanks to: my brother, Howard Spielman; Lawrence “Slim the Hammer Man” Farman; my literary agent, Peter Lainpack; and friend and colleague of long standing, Howard D. Friedlander; Alan Williams of The Viking Press, for his insight and invaluable assistance.

In the days of the amusement palaces, when Coney Island was the playground of the world, the crowds stood twenty deep several times a day to watch the last of the great strongmen perform the impossible. My family were often among the spellbound. My grandparents ,Jacoh and Jennie Shapiro had made the transition from poverty on New York’s Lower East Side to Coney Island, an enclave of working-man’s luxury where hot and cold fresh and salt water was piped into the apartments. On Sundays Jacob, a gentle huar of a man, with his daughter Harriet on one hand and son Irving on the other, stood transfixed as the Mighty Atom performed his wonders. In earliest childhood I had been told by my family about this man; later, I believed him to be an exaggeration long lost in the dim past.

I first met the Mighty Atom at a martial arts show in Madison Square Garden. I was one of the featured guests, having created the Kung Fu television series which sparked the Kung Fu craze of the 1970s. I took my bow with David Carradine, some exploitation actors, and sundry exhibitionists before an audience of eighteen thousand devotees of the Bruce Lee cult. Various martial arts were demonstrated: man nearly cuts his buddy’s genitalia off with an m itation samurai sword. Applause. Two-hundred-twenty-pound man beats a 120-pound woman unconscious. More applause.

Then the old man appeared and walked up past the ring apron. His white hair flowed down to his shoulders; his brown leather tunic bore a gold Star of David. He looked like a living Maccabee. He was a short man, only 5 feet 4’2 inches, but broad; in his strongman’s costume he was a miniature Samson.

The crowd watched in silence as he bent horseshoes with his bare hands and bars of steel across the bridge of his nose, exploded chains with the expansion of his chest, and drove spikes through planks w metal-covered wood with nothing more than the power of his palm. Then the crowd came to its feet, and with good reason. This man was eighty-two years old. A half century after my grandfather had first seen him, I sat ringside, watching the strongman. I could hardly believe that Joseph “the Mighty Atom” Greenstein was still alive. As if deposited by a time machine, he stood in the center ring ot Madison Square Garden and seemed to transcend age anci time

It was not sheer animal strength that awed the crowd, but something greater, an inner power. One’s eyes were drawn to him; he was ancient, yet vitally alive, a compact boulder of granite that pounding water had washed and smoothed. Somehow, it was his mind that held you, not his body. This was no artifact of dumb muscle, but a man whose intelligence expressed itself in every line of his face.

I decided to visit him backstage, although I harbored no small suspicion. At thirty, I was successful by the standards I had set for myself: but broken promises (always accompanied by porcelain smiles and firm tan handshakes had made me cynical. When a Hollywood screenwriter has had his heart and cinematic vision vandalized a dozen times but is still resolute, he is called a professional. I found myself disaffected with an industry that twists wonderful screenplays into mediocre films. How significant to me was the opening scene of the film Sunset Boulevard, in which the screenwriter is found floating face down in the pool.

And so, in meeting the Mighty Atom, I maintained some reticence. afraid I would discover that he, too, was just another phony spellbinder, another product of show-biz hype. I could not face another disillusionment, confront the paling of another romantic image beside the reality.

I introduced myself. He was gracious, very soft-spoken, and his speech was flavored with the lyrical Yiddish accent of my grandparents. He invited me to his home. When we shook hands, he did so gingerly, as if afraid to crush mine. He had a good left eye; the right was blind and milky white. But that one good eye of crystal blue had the power of a Svengali. A life-force emanated from him, as if he had found the secret, the way to deny old age and death.

Some days later I went to see him. The neighborhood surrounding his brick row house on East Ninety-sixth Street and Rutland Road in Brooklyn was once the heart of a prosperous middle-class community. Now, glass was strewn in the streets and groups of stray dogs ran wild. Those of the old neighborhood had fled, all but one.

He came to the door; his shoulder-length hair was pinned under his skull cap, the powerful chest and wrestler’s arms concealed by a shirt and vest. He sported several lapel pins, one a memento presented by the Israel Defense Forces , another a prize for poetry.

He lived in an apartment at the rear of the multifamily house, with no woman to care for him. A wall plaque with the Hebrew word Shalom hung over a kitchen table cluttered with jars of pens, sheaves of Yiddish poems, and mail orders for Mighty Atom products from the one-man health company he had operated for fifty years. His vest matched neither his pants nor the jacket that was draped over the chair. He kept a pair of snow tires in the kitchen, an antique washboard and a fifty-year-old can opener were on the sink, Mighty Atom soap and liniment were in the bathroom.

He intended to sell the house and leave, We went down into the cellar to review the artifacts of a lifetime. Late at night, our only illumination coming from a bare bulb that hung over our heads, we were a pair of archeologists out to excavate his past glories. Rusted lengths of metal hung on an old display board, twisted into corkscrews as if by some uncontrollable force of nature, contorted into curliques like coiled auto springs. He could name the place and year for each object. He smiled when I found the key to the city of Saratoga Springs under a half inch of dust in a remote drawer; it was, he said, one of twenty such keys, and most of the others were destroyed in the great Coney Island fire. Bags of old fan mail sat by vaudeville posters and photos of the Atom in action,

The old man paused to reflect over a beaded bag that had been a favorite of his wife’s. Knowing full well that it would end up in the garbage when the next owner arrived, he put it in the “save” box, although he understood that he couldn’t take it when he moved to a room in his daughter’s house. A rare assortment of stuff: a .32 Smith and Wesson revolver that he had taken from a hooligan in the South of the 1930s, ancient Hebrew books, and others on Jewish history. We finished our treasure hunt after three hours.

The Atom and I talked late into the night. It was a dangerous neighborhood and over my protests he escorted me to my car. Despite my embarrassment I knew he was right: he was the Mighty Atom still.

I came to see him again and again, always with affectionate skepticism, waiting for self-aggrandizement, which never came, and never quite knowing where it would all lead. Days became years. I absorbed the myriad details of his life, though he often glossed over the most fantastic occurrences or feats with a mere nod or wave of his hand. “Is that true, Joe?” I would ask, and inevitably he would smile and, without seeking approbation, reveal printed documentation. He wished to relate his life to me because he knew that his years were growing short, and believed that if it were not all recorded somehow, it would be as if he had never lived it.

This is his story, as he told it to me, buttressed by decades of newspaper and magazine articles, personal interviews with eyewit-nesses, and my own observations and research. I have filled in a line of dialogue here and there, a missing conversation. Of his life, times, and feats I have invented nothing. The story is true.

The heat was oppressive on July 15, 1893, the third day of the month of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar. Chaya Greenstein, breathing heavily, carried water up Malorotczik Street in the poorest section of Suvalk, Poland, a garrison town near the German border. The woman, in the sixth month of her eighth pregnancy, stumbled and fell. Labor began almost immediately, and her baby was born soon after, a tiny, wizened thing weighing only three and a half pounds. Its eyes remained closed; only the faintest whisper of breath issued from its lips. She placed it in a small box, on a layer of cotton she had saturated with poppy-seed oil to protect the skin, and nursed it with an eye dropper.

In those days premature babies rarely survived, and when the child, which had been named Yosselle Leib (Joseph Lewis), endured for a week, news of the event spread. On the ninth day of Yosselle Greenstein’s life, his father Herschel, a rabbi who was obliged to eke out a living at unscholarly labor as a tanner, looked up from his book to see three well-dressed gentlemen trudging through the ankle-deep mud toward the house. They were three doctors, An-ievitch, Bokanofsky, and Nathanson, who had come to view the unusual infant. Herschel let them in and stood nearby as they gathered around the child. There was nothing they could do, they said. They inspected the biological curiosity for some time, and

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Author: Spielman, Ed

Brand: Brand: First Glance Books

Edition: 2nd Edition

• Used Book in Good Condition

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 234

Release Date: 01-03-1998

Part Number: new-Nov09usbook-2017-c058542

Details: Book by Spielman, Ed

EAN: 9781885440303

Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English

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More editions of Mighty Atom: Life and Times of Joseph L. Greenstein:

• The Mighty Atom: The Life and Times of Joseph L. Greenstein; Biography of a Superhuman: ISBN 9780670475643 (978-0-670-47564-3) Hardcover, The Viking Press, 1979
• Mighty Atom: Life and Times of Joseph L. Greenstein: ISBN 9780436482007 (978-0-436-48200-7) Hardcover, SECKER & W, 1980