LOCAL
AUTHOR ON “TRAVELING THE JEWISH DIASPORA” AT BOOK EVENT AT LIBERTY BOOK STORE,
WPB, FL, NOVEMBER 13
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“Traveling
the Jewish Diaspora” will be one of the topics discussed by travel writer and author Ben G. Frank, of Boynton Beach, FL, at a book
event at Liberty Book Store, 330 Clematis St., Ste. 117, (corner Clematis and
Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, from 6
pm. to 8 pm, Thursday, November 13.
The
meet-and greet book signing also will highlight the “Ukraine-Russian crisis. Frank is the author
of three books on Russia and Ukraine and will be launching in Florida his
historical novel, “Klara’s Journey,” (Marion
Street Press), an historical novel and “a story of betrayal, high drama and
love,” that deals with the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
“Those events a century ago were a harbinger of the current
Ukrainian conflict,” said Frank who is the author of “The Scattered Tribe, Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to
Tahiti & Beyond,” (Globe Pequot Press). Warren
Adler, author of The War of the Roses, described
“Klara’s Journey,” as: “A human
struggle of epic proportions that will linger in the mind long after the story
unfolds.”
Thorne
Donnelley, owner of Liberty Book Store noted that Frank has been to Russia and
Ukraine at least a half dozen times. During the Cold War, Frank, a former
newspaper reporter and journalist, worked for Radio Liberty which broadcasts to
the former Soviet Union and now Russia. His family is from the Ukraine.
At the event at Liberty Book Store, www.libertybookstore.com, Frank will
discuss “ traveling the Jewish Diaspora.”
The November 13 event is open to the public and light
refreshments will be served.
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