Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Winston Churchill "finest hour" (best version)

Monday, February 21, 2011

March Book Talks and Events

Tuesday, March 1st – 7:15 PM

KOBERNICK HOUSE

1951 N. Honore Ave.

Sarasota, FL 34235-9130

(941) 377-0781

Saturday March 12^th , 10:00 AM

FOUR SEASONS Hotel, Chicago, Il

College of American Pathologists

Monday, March 14^th 1:00 PM

MILWAUKEE JEWISH MUSEUM

1380 N. Prospect Ave,

Milwaukee, WI

Tuesday, March 15^th, 7:00 PM

Goodman Community Center
149 Waubesa St.
Madison, WI 53704
(608) 241-1574 ext 225
www.goodmancenter.org

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Winston Churchill's Poetic Speeches of World War II

Thank you Memphis for your southern hospitality, for your overwhelming acceptance of my novel and for giving me the chance to spread the word that war is not the answer to political disagreements. The characters in 21 Aldgate have lived through two world wars. They have done so with humour with dignity and with the resolve to never let it happen again. Yet, wars continue, and try as we may, we do not appear to be able to stop them. 21 Aldgate is written in their memory, and as tribute to the soldiers who fought and died on the battlefields of the Somme and for the civilians who perished in London from bombs indiscriminately falling out of the skies.

Patricia Friedberg

Friday, February 11, 2011

The Cable Street Riot of 1936

For background on the riot, click here.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Patricia Friedberg at Davis-Kidd with '21 Aldgate'

By Peggy Burch on February 4, 2011 7:28 PM Share:

By Rosemary Nelms, nelms@commercialappeal.com

Patricia Friedberg's "21 Aldgate" is a book for the movie-goers who sat in Memphis theaters recently and applauded at the end of "The King's Speech." (I know from my own experience and from friends that there are many of you.)

In writing "21 Aldgate" (Rainbow Books, $27.95), Friedberg has drawn on her own and her family's experiences in London in the period leading up to and during World War II. The climax of "The King's Speech" is Britain's declaration of war on Germany on Sept. 3, 1939, and that event occurs about three quarters of the way through Friedberg's novel. Like the movie, the book features Winston Churchill in an important subsidiary role.

About the Author Patricia Friedberg

British-born author Patricia Friedberg grew up in London during World War II. She attended the Henrietta Barnett School and later the London School of Journalism. Soon after her marriage, the Friedbergs left England to live for many years in South Africa and in the Rhodesias - now Zambia and Zimbabwe - where Dr. Friedberg practiced medicine and where she was a journalist and writer of documentaries for the Rhodesian Newspapers and Rhodesian Television.

Due to civil unrest and for the safety of their children, the family came to America, where Mrs. Friedberg attended university and wrote columns for community and organizational papers, and hosted a television talk show, '"People of the Book," for the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In addition to her talent as a writer and journalist, Mrs. Friedberg has composed music for theatre, written prose for a ballet and has travelled extensively with her husband, a professor of cardiology who lectured around the world.

She has co-authored with her daughter, Adrienne, two illustrated children’s books, Dear Sammie, A Letter to a child of Divorcing parents, and Dear Jake.

She is the mother of four children, each born in a different country, grandmother of eight, and now has four great-grandsons.

Synopsis

When young Clara Simon suddenly quit her steady job in Ernest Maxwell Abbott's law firm over his increasingly shabby treatment of Jewish clients, she soon realized the seriousness of her actions. Giving up any job in struggling, post-WWI London meant taking a chance.

Clara knew her family at 21 Aldgate would not be supportive. With that in mind she did the only thing a Londoner could do: she looked for a quiet place to have a cup of tea and think over her hasty decision. A coincidental meeting with a former Abbott employee resulted in the suggestion of a job offer in Chelsea.

Clara, reluctant to consider venturing into affluent Chelsea, finally agreed to meet with the important French artist, Paul Maze, who needed an assistant to help write his memoir of his work as a field artist during the First World War. Their working relationship ignited a passionate love that forever changed and haunted her.

On the tides of political and social chaos prior to the Second World War, Clara was forced to make decisions that risked both her life and her marriage.

21 Aldgate