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Jimmy Kieserman, Grandson of
Harry Litwack, Seeks Validation
from Basketball Legend
J JARRAD SAFFREN | STAFF WRITER
immy Kieserman, a former
Abington High School bas-
ketball standout, University of
Miami basketball letter winner and
four-time U.S.A. basketball player in
the Maccabiah Games, only really
wanted one thing out of his career.

Th at would be a verbal confi rma-
tion from his grandfather, the Temple
University coaching legend and
Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame
inductee Harry Litwack, that he was a
good player.

But it never came. Litwack, famously,
was a man of few words. He also was a
man of the old school, who sided with
fellow coaches against even his family
members. Yet this summer, the grandson is
perhaps getting his long-awaited con-
fi rmation from the Philadelphia bas-
ketball public. Aft er playing in his
fourth Maccabiah Games at age 52 in
July, Kieserman will join his grandfa-
ther in the Philadelphia Jewish Sports
Hall of Fame.

“Somewhere, he’s so proud,”
Kieserman said of Litwack.

Th e grandson grew to love the game
at his grandfather’s basketball camp
in the Poconos, according to Lois
Kieserman, Kieserman’s mother and
Litwack’s daughter. Kieserman came
away from those experiences repeating
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