Ezekiel Nieto Benzion

Ezekiel Nieto Benzion started his career as a scholar of the languages of the Jewish diaspora. He grew up listening to the stories of his grandfather Reuben Nieto Benzion, an immigrant and labor leader in New York, about their family. After his grandfather died, Ezekiel inherited the the journals of his forebear, Judah Halevi, written in Hebrew and hidden by the Benzion family in Bohemia for 200 years. Since then, he has worked on bringing the tales from the journals to life and inspiring others to discover and tell the stories of heroes in their families. He spends time each year traveling to the sites mentioned in the journals and poring through dusty archives to find the truth behind some of the clues left by Judah Halevi.