Moe 'Montgomery' Hart Herscovitch (27 October 1897 – 22 July 1969) who after taking up boxing during his WWI Canadian Army service with considerable success, won a bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics for Canada in Antwerp as a Middleweight.

He would later coach boxing and rugby and serve as an insurance broker beginning around 1924, later establishing his own company, Herscovitch and Sons in Montreal.

[1][4] Montreal's St. Urbain Street, at the turn of the century, was home to many Eastern European Jewish immigrants, though industrialization had caused portions of it to become run down, and it could still be a challenging environment, situated not far from a number of other ethnic communities.

[5] Although somewhat short in stature at 5' 6", Herscovitch was incredibly athletic, and had blue eyes, and dark brown hair, somewhat atypical for his Eastern European Jewish ancestry.

While posted overseas, he received training in and took up the sport of boxing, winning a number of competitions, including the Aldershot welterweight division.

When Montreal won the big four title in 1919, Moe made the vast majority of goals the club scored that season.

[1][7][4][10][11] Showing his boxing skills prior to the Olympics, on April 24, 1920, Herscovich knocked out Percy Platt in the third round at the Toronto Athletic Club in the Dominion Tournament to take the Canadian 158-pound (Middleweight) division championship, though the claim was not widely recognized.

[15][16] Herscovitch began boxing professionally in earnest in early 1921, and defeated Olympic gold medalist Bert Schneider on 18 May 1921.

Around 1921-22, he claimed the Canadian Welterweight Championship Title, particularly during his First Round knockout win against Harlem Jimmy Kelly in New York on February 22, 1922.

However, on 24 July 1943 while on holiday at the summer resort of Plage Laval, he and some companions were set upon by what could be characterized as a French Canadian anti-Semitic mob and beaten so badly that surgeons were forced to later remove one of his eyes two months later.