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Arthur Frommer, ‘wandering Jew’ who launched a travel guide empire, dies at 95

JL;DR SUMMARY Arthur Frommer, the visionary behind the popular travel guidebook series, passed away at 95. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HeritageEducationCultural UnderstandingTravelArthur FrommerGuidebooksEurope On $5 A DayFrommermediaPostwar TravelPauline Frommer

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Manhattan, New York, United States
"Arthur Frommer, whose empire of travel guidebooks led one interviewer to call him the quintessential wandering Jew, died Nov. 18 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan."
Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
"Arthur Frommer was born on July 17, 1929, in Lynchburg, Virginia; his parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and Austria."
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States
"They lived for a time in Jefferson City, Missouri, before moving to New York City when he was 14."
New York City, New York, United States
"They lived for a time in Jefferson City, Missouri, before moving to New York City when he was 14."
Berlin, Germany
"He wrote his first manual, 1955s The G.I.s Guide to Travelling in Europe, while serving in Berlin in a U.S. Army intelligence unit."
Lomza, Podlachia, Poland
"He also described a trip he took in 2011 to his mothers birthplace of Lomza, Poland, where he located his grandfathers tombstone and learned more about the vibrant Jewish life there before the Holocaust."

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