{"id":56641,"date":"2025-04-13T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T14:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=56641"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:43:42","slug":"by-the-grace-of-the-game-the-holocaust-a-basketball-legacy-and-an-unprecedented-american-dream-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/by-the-grace-of-the-game-the-holocaust-a-basketball-legacy-and-an-unprecedented-american-dream-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBy the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream\u201d Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.podomatic.com\/embed\/html5\/episode\/10180809?style=normal&amp;autoplay=false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" style=\"width: 504px; height: 208px;\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3rEmEm0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read or Listen to the interview by clicking on THIS LINK<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There have been many books written about the Holocaust and countless personal stories of the trials and tribulations of escaping the horrors of the Nazi onslaught across Europe. Some of those stories have happy endings about finding their way to a new country and new land where they restart their lives from scratch and then go on to unprecedented success.<\/p>\n<p>More often than not, those accomplishments usually revolve around the business world. However, in the case of the Grunfeld\u2019s their prosperity happens to occur surrounding the game of basketball both on and off of the court.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1629379220\/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=sporrabb-20&#038;linkCode=w00&#038;linkId=4388f84991e3e82812cb1ef148e88439&#038;creativeASIN=1629379220\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBy the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream\u201d<\/a><\/strong>, the author, Dan Grunfeld so beautifully weaves his family\u2019s history from Romania to New York and beyond while enticing the reader with stories of hope, challenge and pride.<\/p>\n<p>The Grunfeld family, specifically father Ernie and son Dan have been part of the basketball fabric across America and Israel for over half a century. Ernie, who captured a gold medal with the 1976 United States Olympic Team, starred at the University of Tennessee as well as for the New York Knicks. He then went on to become the franchise\u2019s general manager who constructed the great Knicks teams of 90\u2019s while later on holding the same role in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>His son and author of the book, Dan, was a standout for the Stanford Cardinal and then plied his trade across Europe while finishing his career in Israel is the one that really makes this book a fantastic story thanks to his grandmother Livia.<\/p>\n<p>Livia \u201cAnyu\u201d Grunfeld lost her parents as well as a number of siblings at Aushwitz, but together with her husband Apu, they were able to begin building a new life first in Romania where they had two children, Ernie and Lutzi and then in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Without knowing the English language and following the death of his brother due to leukemia, Ernie spent hours on the basketball courts in Queens where he began to hone his trade under the most difficult of circumstances. Bullied by the neighborhood boys, Ernie was able to rise to the occasion and develop into a full-fledged star where he teamed up with Bernard King at Tennessee as the electrifying \u201cErnie and Bernie Show\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While Dan moves back and forth between the primary three characters in the book, he also delves into his own career and how influential his grandmother, Anyu now living on the West Coast was to his own development as a basketball player. In one of the most touching moments when Dan suffers a devastating injury while at Stanford, Anyu races on the court to show her love and coddle her fallen grandson as his own NBA career went up in flames at that very moment.<\/p>\n<p>Once Dan sees his dreams crushed, he begins his own professional basketball journey which leads him full circle to Germany. However, before accepting his first offer he has an intense discussion with Anyu about returning to the scene of the crime in which she so eloquently tells him that sons are not responsible for the sins of their fathers.<\/p>\n<p>When Ernie\u2019s playing time with the Knicks comes to an end and despite English not being his mother tongue, he becomes the club\u2019s radio announcer before heading into the front office where he builds championship level teams with coaches Pat Riley and Jeff Van Gundy.<\/p>\n<p>Dan\u2019s own story takes twists and turns as he is recruited to play on the Romanian National Team while he ends his career on the hardwood in the Holy Land as he plays four seasons in Israel until he hangs up his sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyu\u2019s calming presence is seen throughout the book as the matriarch of the Grunfeld family is clearly the central figure who guides and advises her son and grandson as they all find their own unique way in how they each impact the world through the game of basketball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream\u201d, is a welcome addition to anyone\u2019s personal library both in the realm of the Holocaust and sports.<\/p>\n<p>But most importantly this book has the opportunity to touch the younger generation who may have not had exposure to the Holocaust and are given the chance to engage with the topic wrapped around basketball. 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