Here's the link for my interview on Klara's Journey,A Novel, (Marion Street Press) and "The Scattered Tribe: Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond," (Globe Prequot Press) on WVOX, NY.
Ben G. Frank,
author, journalist, is considered one of this country’s most distinguished
travel writers and commentators on Jewish communities around the world. With the
publication of The Scattered Tribe, Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to
Tahiti & Beyond, he breaks new ground in reporting on far-flung exotic
Jewish outposts. He is the author of A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe 3rd
edition, A Travel Guide to Jewish Russia and Ukraine and A Travel Guide to the
Jewish Caribbean and South America. (Pelican Publishing Company.)
Frank,
a noted Jewish travel writer, traveled through Russia and the Ukraine, Siberia
and the Russian Far East, China and Japan, as well as Canada, before writing
this historical novel. The telling of the story, the secrets of the Rasputnis
family, the deadly struggles of a young girl to find her father, the characters
who seek fulfillment in overcoming jealousy and sibling rivalry, make Klara’s
Journey, a read about human destiny.
A former newspaper reporter with the
New Haven Register and Elizabeth Daily Journal, he has published articles in
Hadassah Magazine, Reform Judaism Magazine, National Jewish Monthly of B’nai
B’rith, Jewish Frontier, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jewish Press, Jewish
Exponent, Jewish Week, as well as The New Haven Register, Inside Chappaqua
Magazine, and Inside Magazine, Philadelphia, PA.
His books have been
cited and reviewed in the New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, Huffington Post,
Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Miami Herald, Palm
Beach Post, andFt. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
Frank has given talks at
Jewish Book Fairs, synagogues and temples. His many lectures include, “Tolerance
and Identity: Jews in Early New York, 1654–1825,” at the Museum of the City of
New York, as well as a talk at the 92nd Street Y. He has appeared on hundreds of
radio and TV talk-shows.
He is a B.A., cum laude graduate of the
University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. graduate of the Center of Israel and Jewish
Studies, Columbia University. He has been active in such professional
organizations as the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the
Overseas Press Club, the American Jewish Public Relations Society and the
Pacific Area Travel Association.
Frank is president of The Frank Promotion
Corp., a public relations firm, specializing in radio-tv talk-shows. He lives
with his wife Riva in Palm Beach County, Florida. The couple has two sons,
Martin and Monte, and four grandchildren.
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