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Triangle Seminar for Jewish Studies: "Seeking Jacob Dinezon"

  • National Humanities Center 7 TW Alexander Drive Durham, NC, 27709 United States (map)

Join North Carolina author, publisher, and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Scott Hilton Davis as he recounts his dramatic, 16-year quest to restore the forgotten 19th-century Yiddish writer Jacob Dinezon to his rightful place in Jewish literature—a journey that began in a 9th-grade religious school class at Temple Beth Or in Raleigh and ended in front of a grand mausoleum in the Jewish cemetery of Warsaw, Poland on Dinezon’s 100th yahrzeit (the 100th anniversary of his death).