{"id":928,"date":"2026-02-11T16:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/?p=928"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:38:39","slug":"two-evenings-with-award-winning-filmmaker-and-virtual-reality-creator-avi-dabach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/2026\/02\/two-evenings-with-award-winning-filmmaker-and-virtual-reality-creator-avi-dabach\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Evenings with Award-Winning Filmmaker and Virtual Reality Creator, Avi Dabach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Department of Religious Studies and the Program in Jewish Studies\u00a0are proud to welcome award-winning filmmaker and virtual reality creator, Avi Dabach, to our campus for two exciting events! Through an immersive virtual reality workshop and a lecture, Dabach will showcase his use of virtual reality and documentary filmmaking to explore history, memory, and cultural heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Registration is requested for both events, found at the links below.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inside the Great Synagogue of Aleppo: An Immersive Virtual Reality Experience<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Tuesday, February 17th at the Geller Hillel Student Center<\/span><\/div>\n
5:00pm dinner and presentation<\/span><\/div>\n
In this presentation, filmmaker Avi Dabach recounts the history and destruction of the Great Synagogue of Aleppo and the last-minute photographic documentation that preserved it, sharing his journey of transforming these rare images into an immersive Virtual Reality experience. Through historical research, 3D modeling, and digital technology, the project reconstructs communal memory by transforming absence into presence and preserves lost material heritage.<\/div>\n
Register Here<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Searching for Jewish Aleppo: A Filmmaker’s Quest to Restore Syria’s Lost Heritage<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Wednesday, February 18th at the Baker-Nord Institute in Clark 206<\/span><\/div>\n
6:00pm refreshments |\u00a0<\/span>6:30pm lecture<\/div>\n
This lecture explores the destruction of Aleppo\u2019s ancient Jewish community after the 1947 anti-Jewish riots, including the burning of the Great Synagogue and the disappearance of the Aleppo Codex. Drawing on his family\u2019s connection to the Codex, Dabach traces its mystery through his documentary, The Lost Crown, and a virtual-reality reconstruction of the synagogue, showing how personal memory and immersive technology can converge to recover a vanished world.<\/div>\n
Register Here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Two Evenings with Avi Dabach are sponsored by: the Baker-Nord Institute, Geller Hillel, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Program in Jewish Studies<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Religious Studies and the Program in Jewish Studies\u00a0are proud to welcome award-winning filmmaker and virtual reality creator, Avi Dabach, to our campus for two exciting events! Through an immersive virtual reality workshop and a lecture, Dabach will showcase his use of virtual reality and documentary filmmaking to explore history, memory, and cultural heritage.<\/p>\n

Registration is requested for both events, found at the links below.<\/p>\n

Click here for more information on both events<\/a><\/p>\n

Inside the Great Synagogue of Aleppo: An Immersive Virtual Reality Experience<\/strong><\/a>
\nTuesday, February 17th at the Geller Hillel Student Center<\/strong>
\n5:00pm dinner and presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Searching for Jewish Aleppo: A Filmmaker’s Quest to Restore Syria’s Lost Heritage<\/strong><\/a>
\nWednesday, February 18th at the Baker-Nord Institute in Clark 206<\/strong>
\n6:00pm refreshments | 6:30pm lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two Evenings with Avi Dabach are sponsored by: the Baker-Nord Institute, Geller Hillel, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Program in Jewish Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2026\/02\/11163828\/Avi-Dabach-Two-evenings-flyer.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/judaic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}