Friday, June 9, 2017

21 ALDGATE BOOK TALK /TEMPLE ADATH YESHURUN, SYRACUSE, New York

Sunday JUNE 4th 1-3PM

An interesting and rewarding afternoon.

Dear Patricia Friedberg,

Thank you so much for including our Temple Adath Yeshurun HAZAK group in your demanding schedule. The feedback that we have received regarding your warm, humorous, and engaging presentation has been overwhelmingly positive. We are so excited about the prospect of seeing your upcoming 21 Aldgate mini-series!

Again, thank you.

Sincerely,

Marcia Mizruchi, corresponding secretary

Temple Adath Yeshurun HAZAK

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Meet the Author Patricia Friedberg MAY 12th 2017 Charlotte, NC Edit

By Legacies Literary | June 1, 2017 | 0

Thank You JCC of Charlotte, North Carolina OASIS Group for a wonderful luncheon and for the chance to meet with and discuss the 1930’s and the buildup to WWII, the period of history in which Friedberg’s novel 21 ALDGATE is set. All good wishes to the members of the OASIS Group and the excellent staff of Charlotte’s beautiful Jewish Community Center.

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 three 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.