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Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Lekhtman ((ロシア語:Дмитрий Салита); (ウクライナ語:Дмитро Саліта); born April 4, 1982), best known as Dmitriy Salita, is an American professional boxer and world title challenger. He was born in Ukraine but currently resides and fights out of Brooklyn, New York. Salita is a practicing Orthodox Jew. He does not fight on the Sabbath or Jewish holidays and keeps kosher.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Unbeaten Jewish Star Dmitriy Salita Returns on Dec 15 )〕 ==Biography== Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Lekhtman (later Salita) was born in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Odessa, Ukraine). He was five years old when he saw his first boxing match. "It was Mike Tyson, and I remember dancing around my room that night imitating the moves", he recalled.〔(''Jerusalem Post'' article on Salita )〕 Salita moved with his family to Flatbush, Brooklyn, at the age of nine because of the escalating violence against Jews in Ukraine.〔 His father, Aleksandr Lekhtman, was an engineer; his mother, Lyudmila Salita, was an accountant. He has one brother, Mikhail. He was also a business and Jewish studies major at Touro College. His mother originally opposed her son's boxing, but eventually became an enthusiastic supporter. She died in January 1999, after a two-year battle with breast cancer. When she was hospitalized, Salita divided his time between James Madison High School, the Starrett gym, and Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital. He said, "I'd spend the night sleeping in a chair at the hospital and wake up to do my roadwork."〔 He became involved around this time with the Chabad movement. As a tribute to his mother, he uses her maiden name, Salita, as his professional name.〔(Orthodox Jewish boxers score a hit, ) Haaretz〕 In September 2009, Salita married an Israeli citizen, Alona Aharonov,〔http://crownheights.info/simcha-galleries/19590/lchaim-salita-aharonov/〕〔http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/24794/salita-hate-chants-%EF%AC%82oored-me〕 Alona is from the Lubavitch community.〔http://forward.com/articles/129363/a-brooklyn-boxer-humbled-not-down-for-the-count/〕 Salita said: Basically, we came to America because Jews were discriminated against. My parents thought that my brother and I wouldn't grow up with the opportunity to be the best that we could be. My brother, who is nine years older than I am, used to get into a lot of fights, because he was often called names. There were rumors of pogrom every now and then, and Jews would go away to the suburbs from the city. 'Pogrom' means that groups of people would break into homes and bash the house. I remember that my father bought a gun just in case something was to happen. It was very difficult to get top jobs or to go to top schools and still remain proud of your Judaism. I am very grateful to America for letting me pursue my goals, and have freedom of religion and speech. You don't normally appreciate it, but when you don't have it, you understand just how great it is to have it. Now that I am older, I understand it. In New York, classmates picked on Salita in school. He said, "When I first started going to school, I had the clothes that I wore over in Russia. I used to get made fun of because of it, and the fact that I didn't speak English. I had to learn how to defend myself. I got involved in karate, and as time went on my brother brought me to a boxing club. That is how it all started. I got called into the principal's office. I got suspended a few times, but I got my respect. I started kicking some ass at school." In August 2013 as part of fundraising activities for the network of Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish schools Oholey Jinuj, during a gala dinner in Buenos Aires speaking with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Salita affirmed that at the end the his boxing career, he will immigrate to Israel with his family. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dmitry Salita」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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