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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)
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