Thursday, April 30, 2015
40th anniversary of end of Vietnam War.
Today
is the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Timely is my
chapter on Vietnam and its Jewish community in “The Scattered Tribe, Traveling
the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond,” (Globe Pequot Press), http://amzn.to/J3Z47T ---a
travel narrative re exotic Jewish communities throughout the world. Ebook,
kindle, nook. Available wherever books are sold! In Florida: Liberty Book
Store, 330
N Clematis St #117, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, (561) 906-5399 West Palm Beach, FL, www.libertybookstore.com. In New York area, J.
Levine Books and Judaica, 5 West 30th St. NYC, levinejudaica.com Follow me on
twitter @bengfrank. www.bengfrank.blogspot.com
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Pope to visit Cuba as well as Joint Session of Congress
Pope Francis
will visit Cuba in September and then continue his journey to New York,
Philadelphia and Washington where he is expected to address a joint session of
Congress. For more on the Vatican’s role in brokering the U.S. Cuban rapprochement,
read my “The Scattered Tribe: Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to
Tahiti & Beyond, “ (Globe Pequot Press), wherever books are sold and an ebook: http://amzn.to/J3Z47T Follow me on twitter
@bengfrank.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
New Lecture Topic
frankpromo@aol.com
My timely new lecture topic: (also
attached)
WHO SHOULD WE
ROOT FOR : Russia or Ukraine?
Where do
American Jews stand?
·
New Cold War.
New Civil War in Ukraine.
·
OUR JEWISH HERITAGE: Russia & Ukraine:
Until 1920,
Russia and Ukraine were the spiritual and religious center of the Jewish people
in Europe. From 1880 to 1920, 2 million
Jews emigrated from the old Russian Empire to the U.S.
“The World of
Our Fathers and Mothers.”
*From
the shtetl to the Czar to Russian Jews in
the 21st Century:
*Russia:
Yesterday, today and tomorrow?
Meet Ben G.
Frank, journalist, reporter and former news person at Radio Liberty, as well as
the author of the just- published “Klara’s
Journey, A Novel,”(Marion Street Press) a story of betrayal, high drama, love that takes
place in Ukraine & Russia! He is also the author of “The Scattered Tribe: Traveling
the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond,” (Globe Pequot
Press) a travel narrative, with several chapters on Russia and Ukraine, and the
Trans-Siberian Railway..
·
*Impact of
Russian Revolution & Civil War explored in this new historical novel,
“Klara’s Journey,” by Ben G. Frank, considered one of this country’s most
distinguished travel writers and commentators on Jewish communities around the
world.
Talking points:
· The Russian-Ukraine Crisis
· EU and Sanctions
· Future of Ukraine
· Why history is important and yet….
· The Russian and Ukrainian Jewish Community.
Ben G. Frank is also the
author of “A Travel Guide to the Jewish Caribbean and South America,” “A
Travel Guide to Jewish Europe,” and “A Travel Guide to Jewish Russia and
Ukraine,” all Pelican Publishing Company.
Ben G. Frank journeyed through Russia and the Ukraine, Siberia and
the Russian Far East, China and Japan, as well as Canada, before writing this
historical novel , “Klara’s Journey.”
A former newspaper reporter with the New Haven Register and Elizabeth Daily Journal, he has published articles in Hadassah Magazine, Reform Judaism Magazine,
The New Haven Register, The Arkansas Gazette, Inside
Chappaqua Magazine, and Inside
Magazine, Philadelphia, PA.
About the book:
Klara’s Journey: A Novel
ISBN
9781936863471 * 228 pages, trade paperback …$17.95 (CAN $19.95)
Jews from India in WWII
Jews from
India fought with British forces in WWII, points out an exhibition in the
Museum of the Jewish Soldier in WWII in Latrun, Israel. One of the most noted
Jews with the British and in the Indian Army later was Lt. Gen. Jack Frederick
Ralph Jacob, noted Olam Yehudi magazine in the Jewish Press. For more info on
Incredible India and its Jews, read, “The Scattered Tribe, Traveling the
Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond,” (Globe Pequot Press) http://amzn.to/J3Z47T Follow me on twitter
@bengfrank. www.bengfrank.blogspot.com
Monday, April 13, 2015
National Library Week
Let’s
all celebrate, “National Library Week,” April 12-18, with a visit to our
local libraries which give us all an
opportunity for knowledge to succeed, listen, connect and discuss. “Klara’s Journey,”
(Marion Street Press) and “The Scattered
Tribe, Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond,”
(Globe Pequot Press) and my Jewish travel guides to Europe, Russia and South America, (Pelican Publishing) are all
available in libraries.
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Re Jews in Ukraine
“Let me tell you
something: This is not a Jewish fight. The Jews have no side here. The Jews in
Ukraine are siding with Ukraine, and the Jews in Russia are siding with Russia.
It’s very important to understand that,” notes Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, chief
rabbi of Ukraine, in an interview in the Jewish Press, April 8. For more on
Ukraine, read, “Klara’s Journey,” (Marion Street Press) http://amzn.to/13Sp769 as well as “The Scattered Tribe: Traveling
the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond, (Globe Pequot Press). http://amzn.to/J3Z47T Follow me on twitter
@bengfrank. www.bengfrank.blogspot.com
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
A story of "life, loss and love,"
A recent "Russia
Today" headline suggests
that Europe is “slouching towards anxiety and war.” Could be the same headline
when Klara Rasputnis in “Klara’s Journey, “ (Marion Street Press) a story of “life,
loss and love,” made her way across Siberia in the midst of the Russian
Revolution and Civil War. .” http://amzn.to/13Sp769 Follow me on twitter @bengfrank. www.bengfrank.blogspot.com
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