Librarian’s Dramatic Past Life

teaperson writes, “Here’s a librarian to abolish stereotypes …

According to an article in the Boston Globe Frank Lavine was a crewman on Exodus 1947, a dramatic attempt to run the British blockade of Palestine with a shipload of Holocaust survivors. Then he comes back to the United States and becomes a librarian in Medford, MA.

There’s also a radio documentary on Lavine and his mission from WBUR.”