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Dr. Myrna Katz Frommer received her Ph.D. from New York University. She has taught courses in media, public speaking and rhetoric at CUNY, NYU, Fordham,and St. John's. Her articles on Sephardic history and the current resurgence of Jewish life in Spain and Portugal have appeared in The Forward, Midstream, and Ha'aretz. She has also published in the New York Times, Etc.: The Journal of General Semantics, and The Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Dr. Frommer is the author of the oral biography "Always Up Front," the memoirs of Helen Fried Kirshblum Goldstein.
Dr. Harvey Frommer received his Ph.D. from NYU. Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Professor nominee, and recipient of the "Salute to Scholars Award" at CUNY where he taught writing for many years, he was cited in the Congressional Record and by the NYS Legislature as a sports historian and journalist. His many sports books include: New York City Baseball: 1947-1957, Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball, the New York Yankee Encyclopedia, and autobiographies of sports legends Nolan Ryan, Red Holzman and Tony Dorsett. The prolific Frommer is also the author of A Yankee Century, Red Sox vs Yankees:The Great Rivalry (with Frederic J. Frommer), and Five O'Clock Lightning: The 1927 Yankees. His REMEMBERING YANKEE STADIUM will be published in fall 2008 and his REMEMBERING FENWAY PARK is set for 2010 publication.
Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer are the authors of five 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.
PRESERVING THE PAST: ORAL HISTORY IN THEORY
AND PRACTICE (Creative Writing)HOW WE WORK: BACKSTAGE FOR IT HAPPENED ON BROADWAY
ORAL HISTORY TOPICS (A SAMPLING)
MALS QUARTERLY: Fall '02
MALS Quarterly, Spring 2005, "Oral History: To Fill the Silences," by Meghan Julian
ORAL HISTORY CIRCLE NEWSLETTERS: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII
SPORTS JOURNALISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
(Cultural Studies)
