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  • New film, 'Rosenwald,' tells story of Jewish philanthropist who transformed black lives

    Lisa Hostein|Jul 31, 2015

    PHILADELPHIA (JTA)-Alex Bethea, the son of cotton and tobacco farm workers, was in sixth grade in 1965 when his family moved from Dillon, South Carolina, to the tiny town of Fairmont, North Carolina, where he attended a school called Rosenwald. But it wasn't until this week, 50 years later, that Bethea learned that his school was named for Julius Rosenwald, the Jewish philanthropist who is the subject of a new documentary by Aviva Kempner. The film tells the little-known story of Rosenwald's...