Myrna Katz Frommer

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.

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Dorothy Fields wrote songs for a wide variety of musicals that became classics of American culture, from “Hey Big Spender” to “A Fine Romance” and “The Way You Look Tonight,” which won an Academy Award in 1936. In 1971, when the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame held its first annual nominations, Dorothy Fields was the only woman named to the ballot.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Myrna Katz Frommer." (Viewed on November 23, 2024) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/frommer-myrna>.