Stephan R. Frenkel

Mar 5, 2024 | hadassahmagazine.org | Stephan R. Frenkel |Marsha Lee Berkman |Susan Blumberg-Kason |Joanne Levy

A selection of books to entice any reader. Everything from novels to nonfiction, memoirs to mysteries, cookbooks to kids’ books. Clara’s Secret This critically-acclaimed bestseller presents the captivating story of Clara Prinz, a remarkable woman forced to leave her native Berlin in 1939.

May 12, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Stephan R. Frenkel |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton

In this debut work of history, Frenkel explores a great European city through the collected photographs of his grandmother. Clara Prinz came of age in La Belle Époque, the Beautiful Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period of peace during which the great cities of Europe buzzed with prosperity, innovation, and optimism for human society. Clara’s native Berlin was perhaps the grandest city of them all, the capital of an ascendant Kingdom of Prussia and a hub of modern ideas.