Myrna Katz Frommer is the author of Always Up Front: The Memoirs of Helen Fried Kirshblum Goldstein and the co-author of the 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. Her articles, many of which focus on Jewish history, life and culture, particularly in Spain, have appeared in Ha’aretz, The New York Times, Midstream, The Forward and The Jewish Monthly. She received her Ph.D. in communications from New York University and is a professor in the Master of Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College.