Aronin, Ben
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1904-1980) US television performer, scriptwriter, poet and author, who appeared as Uncle Ben in the Magic Door series for children; as an author, he began publishing work of genre interest with "The Doubt" for Amazing in May 1932, and who wrote the Raphael Drale sequence of Lost Race tales about the Lost Tribes of Israel, comprising The Lost Tribe: Being the Strange Adventures of Raphael Drale in Search of the Lost Tribes of Israel (1934) and Cavern of Destiny (1943). The sequence is set within the Arctic Circle. [JC]
Benjamin Aronin
born Sheboygan, Wisconsin: 20 February 1904
died Chicago, Illinois: 26 August 1980
works
series
Raphael Drale
- The Lost Tribe: Being the Strange Adventures of Raphael Drale in Search of the Lost Tribes of Israel (New York: The Simons Press, 1934) [Raphael Drale: hb/A Martin Rothbardt]
- Cavern of Destiny (New York: Behrman's Jewish Book House Publishers, 1943) [Raphael Drale: hb/Lillian Fischel]
individual titles
- The Moor's Gold (Chicago, Illinois: Argus Books, 1935) [hb/]
- The Abramiad (Chicago, Illinois: Argus Books, 1941) [book-length mythological poem on the emergence of the Jewish people: illus/Harald Karlin: hb/]
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