Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer are a wife and husband team who successfully bridge the worlds of popular culture and traditional scholarship.
Having met as students at New York University writing for the school newspaper, they are acclaimed oral historians, co-authors of the six highly praised It Happened in the Catskills, It Happened in Brooklyn, Growing Up Jewish in America, It Happened on Broadway, It Happened in Manhattan, and It Happened in Miami and are at work on IT HAPPENED IN ISRAEL.
Professors of oral history in the MALS program at Dartmouth College, they are also prolific travel writers whose articles on national and international destinations and Jewish communities around the world have appeared in a many outlets including The New York Times, Newsday, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Redbook. Haaretz, Caribbean Travel and Life.