are
a wife and husband team who successfully bridge the worlds of popular
culture and traditional scholarship. Co-authors of the critically
acclaimed interactive oral histories It Happened in the Catskills,
It Happened in Brooklyn, Growing Up Jewish in America, It Happened
on Broadway, and It Happened in Manhattan, they preach what they practice
as professors at Dartmouth College where they team-teach courses in
oral history.
They
are cultural-travel writers who have published nearly one hundred
articles in newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet. A special
interest is the intermingling of past and present of Jewish life and
culture in Spain, Portugal, and Turkey.
Accomplished
and charismatic public speakers, the Frommers have appeared before
live audiences and on the media throughout the United States lecturing
on their books and travel experiences.
Harvey
Frommer is also a noted sports journalist and oral historian, the author
of forty books on sports including the autobiographies of legends
Nolan Ryan, Tony Dorsett, and Red Holzman. The prolific Frommer was
also selected by Major League Baseball to be an Expert Witness in
2006 in a case involving trademark infringement.
