Arthur Frommer, whose empire of travel guidebooks led one interviewer to call him the “quintessential wandering Jew,” died Nov. 18 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 95.

Israel, he wrote, needs to retain the talent. “Who wants to return to the days of the wandering Jew, without real freedom, ...

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