(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Duchovny learns his family’s tragic Jewish history on 'Finding Your Roots' - 1914 pogrom, expulsion [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-16 Duchovny tears up, hearing the background ... For quite some time, I found Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s 'Finding Your Roots' so interesting. Especially how the struggle of African-Americans / the long endured suffering and how far they have advanced. He/his team are extraordinary researches, through archives. This time (13 Feb 2023), it was the turn of two noted actors. As I watched the emotions at David growing, it effected me. How his ancestors tried so hard to just have peace. First, they left Russia to Mandatory Palestine, as the managed a dairy farm. Then, suddenly they were abruptly expelled. All that, before coming to the US of course. I had a stable life, I grew up in Manhattan, David said, I didn't live in fear. In contrast to them. One comes out of the clip inspired by their resilience. David Duchovny Learns His Family’s Tragic Jewish History on ‘Finding Your Roots’ www.kveller.com/... By Lior Zaltzman, Feb 13, 2023 Actor David Duchovny, known for “The X-Files,” “The Chair” and, most recently, playing a Jewish father in the controversial Netflix movie “You People,” has long known about his European Jewish roots. His paternal grandfather Moshe came from Berdychiv, which is in modern day Ukraine. Yet in an episode of “Finding Your Roots” which airs this Tuesday, Duchovny, 62, discovers that his grandfather and his family made a couple of pit stops on their way to the U.S. In the early 20th century, the Duchovnys made their way to Jaffa, where they opened an inn. Unfortunately, the Duchovnys, along with 6,000 fellow Jews, were violently expelled from the state one night in December of 1914 by the local Ottoman government... The clip describes how one day, Bedouin police invaded the Jewish quarter of Jaffa, where the Duchovnys lived and worked, and forced them out of their homes with only bags and meager belongings. They were put aboard the Vincenzo Florio, a steamer headed to Port Said, Egpyt. At night, the “relatively orderly” deportation turned violent. According to the clipping, men were thrown overboard, possessions were looted, jewelry was ripped off women and parents and children were separated, with the young ones “carried from […] the quayside.” “There were desperate appeals on every side in the darkness, with heartrending screams. Everyone arrived in Alexandria resourceless,” ... “Are you saying that my family was in that, or is this just something that happened?” a stunned Duchovny asks host Henry Louis Gates, who confirms that his ancestors were among the 6000 deported to Egypt like that. David Duchovny tears up while learning how ancestors came to America: ‘They didn’t give up’ www.today.com/... “They ran and they ran and they got somewhere," the "X-Files" star said of his Jewish ancestors on the latest episode of "Finding Your Roots." Duchovny learns that his grandfather's family lived in the Pale of Settlement, a geographic region of czarist Russia that encompasses modern-day Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova, Ukraine and east-central Poland. Jews were allowed to live in the Pale, but they were also subject to anti-Semitic violence. "Jewish people suffered an array of humiliating restrictions and were vulnerable to violence at any time," Gates explains. Between 1897 and 1915, more than 1 million Russian jews emigrated out of the Pale, including Duchovny's great-grandparents and their six children. While most went to the U.S., Gates says, Duchovny's ancestors relocated to the Middle East around 1910 — specifically, Jaffa, a city that's now in Israel but was formerly in Palestine and part of the Ottoman Empire. Their stay in Jaffa was brief. In 1914, police invaded the Jewish quarter and deported 6,000 residents to Egypt. “Are you saying that my family was in that, or is this just something that happened?" Duchovny asks. Gates confirms that his family was involved in this violent ransacking. Most were robbed of all of their possessions, meaning that Duchovny's family had to started from scratch, again. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/16/2153451/-Duchovny-learns-his-family-s-tragic-Jewish-history-on-Finding-Your-Roots-1914-pogrom-expulsion Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/