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Post by jade1013 Fri 29 Jul - 6:52

"Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." Season Nine Premieres January 3, 2023

New 10-Episode Season Featuring 21 New Celebrities Premiering on PBS



New Episodes Explore Ancestry Stories of Jim Acosta, Carol Burnett, Jamie Chung, Brian Cox, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Angela Davis, Viola Davis, David Duchovny, Tony Gonzalez, Jeh Johnson, Van Jones, Richard Kind, Cyndi Lauper, Joe Manganiello, Tamera Mowry, Niecy Nash, Edward Norton, Julia Roberts and Danny Trejo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Arlington, VA (July 28, 2022) - Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for an all-new season of FINDING YOUR ROOTS. Over the course of ten episodes, Gates uses genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis to guide twenty-one influential guests through the branches of their family trees. Uncovering buried secrets and inspiring stories of long- forgotten ancestors, the new season will premiere January 3, 2023 on PBS, and stream on PBS.org and the PBS Video app.

FINDING YOUR ROOTS Season Nine highlights the genealogical backgrounds and ancestral stories of prominent guests that helped to define who they are today. The season features actors Jamie Chung ("Lovecraft Country"), Brian Cox ("Succession"), Billy Crudup ("The Morning Show"), Claire Danes ("Homeland"), Jeff Daniels ("American Rust"), Viola Davis ("The Woman King"), David Duchovny ("The X-Files"), Richard Kind ("Inside Out"), Joe Manganiello ("True Blood"), Tamera Mowry ("The Real"), Edward Norton ("Fight Club"), Julia Roberts ("Ticket to Paradise") and Danny Trejo ("Machete"); pop star Cyndi Lauper; comedians Carol Burnett and Niecy Nash; athlete and sportscaster Tony Gonzalez; journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones; activist Angela Davis; and statesman Jeh Johnson.

At the center of it all, guiding every discovery, is host and executive producer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

Gates remarks, "I am deeply proud of this series - and especially this season. I think it is so important today to show what we have in common, as Americans, and as human beings, despite our apparent differences. The stories we find in our guests' family trees demonstrate - repeatedly - that we are a fundamentally blended nation that draws strength from our diversity."

Assembling the extensive family trees and ancestral narratives alongside Dr. Gates are DNA expert CeCe Moore (chief genetic genealogist for Parabon Nanolabs and host of ABC's "The Genetic Detective") and genealogists Nick Sheedy and Kimberly Morgan, who together have solved hundreds of mysteries and reconnected innumerable lost relatives over the past two decades.

The public can explore and share their family histories via social media using the hashtag #FindingYourRoots on Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, via Facebook.com/FindingYourRootsPBS and @HenryLouisGates, and on the series companion site, pbs.org/FindingYourRoots.

FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Nine is a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Media, Kunhardt Films and WETA Washington, D.C. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the writer, host, and executive producer. Dyllan McGee and Peter Kunhardt are executive producers. John F. Wilson is the executive producer in charge for WETA. Bill Gardner is the executive in charge for PBS. Sabin Streeter is the senior producer. Natalia Warchol is the series producer. Hannah Olson is the consulting producer. Deborah Clancy Porfido is the supervising producer. Kevin Burke is the producer. Robert L. Yacyshyn is the line producer. Sabin Streeter and Krista Whetstone are directors.

Corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Nine is provided by Ancestry and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation, Candace King Weir and by The Inkwell Society and its members.

An electronic press kit for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Nine, including downloadable photos for promotional use, is available on PBS Pressroom.


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David Duchovny Learns His Family’s Tragic Jewish History on ‘Finding Your Roots’

By Lior Zaltzman Feb 13, 2023

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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 Palestine, 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.

In an exclusive clip from “Finding Your Roots,” Duchovny gets emotional as he reads about the fate that befell his great-grandparents and his grandfather.

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,” the clipping about the event reads.

“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.

“And treated like this?” a tearful and visibly emotional Duchovny inquires.

“Yes,” Louis Gates responds.



The Duchovnys’ expulsion was part of mass deportations of Jews from Jaffa and Tel Aviv that started when the Turks sided with the Central Powers during WWI. The Jews, who were previously treated fairly enough by the local government, were seen as a risk to national security and possible collaborators with the Allied Forces. Tens of thousands of Jews who lived in Jaffa and Tel Aviv were forcibly deported in the years of the war; quite a few didn’t survive the expulsions.

The Duchovnys, however, did finally make in to New York, where David’s grandfather, Moshe, became a celebrated Yiddish writer who wrote for a local Orthodox Zionist-leaning Yiddish paper — the Forward recently unearthed clippings about how beloved he was by the local Jewish community. Duchovny’s father, Amram — or Ami, as he was known — worked as a publicist for the American Jewish Committee and later for Brandeis. In his 70s, he began publishing novels.

Duchovny himself has continued this legacy of Jewish penmanship. He is a writer of five books, including “Holy Cow,” which tells the tale of a pig named Shalom who converts to Judaism and solves the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“My father was a kind of cultural Jew, I’d say,” Duchovny told the New York Times. “So if I have a Jewish sensibility, I think it’s more in the cultural sense.”

Duchovny’s episode of “Finding Your Roots” airs this Tuesday at 8 ET/7 CT.


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February 15, 2023 10:30 am

Actor David Duchovny Learns About Harrowing Journey His Jewish Ancestors Faced to Escape Eastern Europe

by Shiryn Ghermezian

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Actor David Duchovny reading about his Jewish ancestors on “Finding Your Roots.” Photo: Screenshot

Actor David Duchovny made discoveries about his Jewish family members from Eastern Europe and their journey to immigrate to the United States in Tuesday’s episode of the PBS show Finding Your Roots.

Duchovny, who recently starred as a Jewish father in the Netflix film You People, started off by learning that his paternal grandfather, Moshe Duchovny, was born in Berdychiv, which is in now in northern Ukraine. The actor, whose mother is Protestant, got emotional reading his grandfather’s petition for American citizenship filed in 1940.

“It just makes me so sad that I didn’t get to meet him really,” he told Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates Jr. “We missed one another on this plane of existence, right? But here he is coming back.”

Moshe Duchovny died in New York in 1960 at the age of 58 when David was an infant. He was an accomplished Yiddish writer who was also a reporter for a local Yiddish language paper and published several novels. David learned all this from reading an obituary about his grandfather that was presented by Gates Jr.

“You realize that these people who are figures to you had full lives,” said the X-Files star, 62, after reading about his grandfather’s life. “Just to think of him, I mean I knew he was just a reporter of some kind, but I don’t know how vibrant he was and how busy.”

David also discovered that his father’s family in Russia ran a dairy farm and lived in an area where the Jewish community faced antisemitic violence and restrictions. When they were granted permission to leave Russia, they traveled in 1910 to Jaffa, which was then part of Palestine, where they ran an inn.

Their stay in the city was short though when in December 1914, the local Ottoman government violently deported 6,000 Jews, including the Duchovnys, and sent them on a boat to Egypt. The expelled Jews were also robbed of most of their possessions and arrived in Egypt with nothing. David got emotional once again after reading a newspaper article about the devastating fate that befell his great-grandparents and their family.

Two years after arriving in Egypt, David’s great-grandfather and grandfather boarded a ship bound for the United States. The rest of the family arrived in New York in 1920. David said he was “proud” to learn about his family’s perseverance throughout all their hardships.

“I can’t imagine their state of mind,” he said. “You’re always thinking of the hope of the new world and they must have had some hope, but [also] the fear and the dislocation. They’ve been moving quite a bit for a couple of years and it’s not going well. And they’re going all over the world looking for a home … They ran, and they ran and they got somewhere. They didn’t give up.”

David’s great-grandmother died of tuberculosis only six weeks after arriving in New York. Her tombstone remains at a Jewish cemetery in Queens, NY, and includes a portrait of her. David saw an image of the tombstone, with its photo and Hebrew inscription, and was able for the first time ever to see what his great-grandmother looked like.

The actor’s grand-grandfather moved back to Israel shortly after becoming a widower and lived in Tel Aviv until he died on Dec. 5, 1942 at the age of 68. He remains buried at Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery in Tel Aviv.

“I always just thought that it was luck — that they got out before the Holocaust,” he said. “But now I think it’s more, they were smart. They were looking for opportunity and safety,” David said. He added, “My life has been so easy compared to them. I didn’t fear for my life. I didn’t think we’d be forced to move. I had a solid childhood. I’m just lucky in that way and the question becomes — what do you owe? What’s your responsibility?

“I have a sense of place that I didn’t have before. I feel a presence of all these people in the room right now.”

Tuesday’s episode of Finding Your Roots additionally featured Big Mouth actor Richard Kind, who also made discoveries about his Jewish family tracing back to Eastern Europe.


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Actor David Duchovny has longed to find a connection to his paternal grandfather for decades. Now, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. brings him closure by sharing the heart-breaking, but powerful story of Moshe Duchovny.
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David Duchovny Learns About "Acts of Barbarism" His Jewish Ancestors Endured

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David Duchovny Wells Up After Hearing the "Acts of Barbarism" Committed by Turks on His Jewish Ancesters in the 1914 Ottoman expulsion in Jaffa.
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