Posted on 02/16/2023 3:49:31 PM PST by Postel
US actor’s family was deported from Jaffa to Egypt in 1914
bataween | Posted on 15 February 2023 | No Comments
The celebrity US actor David Duchovny has just discovered something about his family he never knew: his grandfather Moshe was deported from Jaffa to Port Said in Egypt by the Turkish authorities at the start of World War I. Duchovny learned about his family’s migration from their place of birth, Berdichev in the Russian empire, to Palestine (then under Ottoman rule), thence to Egypt. They ended up taking a boat from Greece to the US, where Moshe acquired American citizenship
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, Egypt.
At night, 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,” the newspaper report from the time says.
It is amazing how many of those who are Jewish or descendants from Jews are very successful in America.
For me, it’s something to be learned from and not to be jealous of. It’s too late for me to be successful in this life, but in eternity I will do what I can to be unstoppable.
I wish everybody would learn from them, because we could be traveling the stars.
Duchovny is a Lefty — but may now have the occasion to rethink some of his views.
“I Believe....”
Then as I got older when I heard a lot of anti-Semitic comments from others including some from my own family I always thought that was completely nuts and still can't understand it.
To me Jews are like canaries in the social coal mine: when they start getting hard time, it's a bad sign.
Perhaps more amazing was that one grand uncle, after being in the US for a few years and enduring that journey, went back to his home area in Russia...about 1935... and later died in the Holocaust.
I watched it too. Amazing. He was overcome.
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“Your ancestors were among 6,000 Jewish residents of Jaffa who were deported to Egypt in December of 1914,” Gates responded.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/02/15/actors-david-duchovny-and-richard-kind-learn-jarring-information-about-jewish-past-on-finding-your-roots/
God bless you.
It didn’t end there. The US cruiser Tennessee and a couple other US cruisers transported several thousand Jewish (and some Armenians) from Ottoman-controlled Palestine to Brit-controlled Alexandria, Eqypt.
Hopefully.
The same Morgenthau also protested the Armenian Genocide... and the Ottoman in charge asked him why does it matter to him, as “only” Christians are murdered. Morgenthau pressed on.
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“You are a Jew; these people are Christians. The Mohammedans and the Jews always get on harmoniously. We are treating the Jews here all right. What have you to complain of? Why can’t you let us do with these Christians as we please?
https://books.google.com/books?id=orfADgAAQBAJ&pg=PT266
David Duchovny Learns His Family’s Tragic Jewish History on ‘Finding Your Roots’
By Lior ZaltzmanFeb 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 6000 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.
Will be interesting to see the perps identification. White supremacist or something else? Criminal record? High bail or no bail?
Well said
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