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Article: Books Bring Old Iron Curtain Spots Into the Fold
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 17, 1996
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Travel books on countries once behind the Iron Curtain are
rolling off the presses at express-train speed these days. And one
of the best special-interest books has just been rewritten to include
some of that territory.
A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe by Ben G. Frank (Pelican,
$17.95) is out in a second edition that includes the Czech Republic,
Hungary, Slovakia and Poland.
"Somewhere along the line, dear reader, if you travel to Poland
today you will shed a tear," Frank warns, as he talks of Nazi death
camps, the Warsaw ghetto, the 300 Jewish publications that no longer
exist. This, in the country that during the Middle Ages housed